Insightful Interviews With John Gatto

Insightful Interviews With John Gatto: "

John Gatto is widely recognized as the post-modern expert of all things unschooling. By no means do you have to be an unschooler to appreciate what he has to say; his perspectives can get almost any parent to start thinking outside the box.

John Taylor Gatto has almost 30 years of education under his proverbial belt and made major waves when, upon accepting his first of two Teacher of the Year awards, he shared a piece of his mind with the educational community about the uselessness of today’s schools.

These first two clips are parts 1 and 2 of a recent interview about the definition of unschooling and what are its strengths and weaknesses.

John Taylor Gatto on Unschooling (part 1)

(Part 2)

The Purpose and Origins of Public Education

Did you know that in Switzerland, one of the richest nations in the world, only 1 in 4 children go on to high school?

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