Teacher of 25 years in New York City, John Taylor Gatto was nominated for New York City Teacher of the Year Award in 1990. Upon accepting it, he said the following speech, entitled “Why Schools Don’t Educate”:
http://www.naturalchild.org/guest/john_gatto.html
I think he raises some very important points about the nature of our school system. Unfortunately, school and education have come to be known as synonymous, when in reality, true education does not necessarily take place in schools at all… Interestingly, Gatto resigned from teaching in regular schools and became a teacher at The Albany Free School.
Gatto is author of several books and articles. More of his articles can be found here:
http://www.cantrip.org/againstschool.html (How Public Education Cripples our Kids, and Why)
http://www.cantrip.org/gatto.html (The Six Lesson Schoolteacher)
http://www.dvschool.org/psngatto.htm (The Public School Nightmare: Why fix a system designed to destroy individual thought?)
Enjoy the reads and do comment if something strikes you! Look forward to reading your thoughts!
