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The School vs. The Soul: Notes on an Essay by John Taylor Gatto

by Hannah FrankmanUncategorized October 5, 2016May 12, 2017No Comments

I read a powerful essay today by John Taylor Gatto (linked here). I’d highly recommend reading it — it’s a short and deep summary of the history of our public school system, the detriments of the system, and an argument that we don’t need the system at all. I wrote the following notes in response. …

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by Hannah FrankmanQuotes September 2, 2016May 12, 2017No Comments

From repeated experience I can confidently state that I doubt if anyone can devise a subject of even the slightest significance but that someone previously had written a substantial book upon it. The accumulation of usable knowledge in this world is staggering, and with the new computerized indexes, even the most fugitive document can be …