"Children are organically predisposed to be critical thinkers," "Children's passion for thinking often ends when they encounter a world
that seeks to educate them for conformity and obedience only. Most children
are taught early on that thinking is dangerous." bell hooks,
"Boredom was everywhere in my world, and if you asked the
kids, as I often did, why they felt so bored, they always gave
the same answers: They said the work was stupid, that it made no
sense, that they already knew it." "I had more than enough reason to think of our schools - with
their long-term, cell-block-style, forced confinement of both students
and teachers - as virtual factories of childishness," "[What] our schools really are: laboratories of
experimentation on young minds, drill centers for the habits and
attitudes that corporate society demands" John Gatto
"It doesn't take a rocket scientist to see that our school systems are broken," Lewis Black john gatto,
""Worse yet, it turns them [students] into "containers," into "recepticles" to be "filled" by the teacher,"
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