There isn’t a right way to be educated; there are as many ways as there are fingerprints. We don't need state-certified teachers to make education ha… - John Taylor Gatto

It is time that we squarely face the fact that institutional schoolteaching is destructive to children. Nobody survives the seven-lesson curriculum completely unscathed, not even the instructors.

Slowly I began to realize that the bells and the confinement, the crazy sequences, the age-segregation, the lack of privacy, the constant surveillance, and all the rest of the national curriculum of schooling were designed exactly as if someone had set out to prevent children from learning how to think and act, to coax them into addiction and dependent behavior.

What's gotten in the way of education in the United States is a theory of social engineering that says there is one right way to proceed with growing up.