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John Taylor Gatto is a retired school teacher of 30 years, and author of several books on education. He is an activist against compulsory schooling.
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Gatto was born in Monongahela, Pennsylvania. In his youth, he attended public schools in Swissvale, Monongahela, and Uniontown, as well as a Catholic boarding school in Latrobe. He did undergraduate work at Cornell, the University of Pittsburgh, and Columbia, then served in the U.S. Army medical corps at Fort Knox, Kentucky, and Fort Sam Houston, Texas. Following army service he did graduate work at the City University of New York, Hunter College, Yeshiva, the University of California, and Cornell.
He worked as a writer and held several odd jobs before becoming a teacher. During his career he was named Teacher of the Year three times. In 1991, he wrote a letter announcing his retirement, titled I Quit, I Think, to the op-ed pages of the Wall Street Journal, saying that he did not want to "hurt children anymore". He then began a public speaking career, and has received several awards from libertarian organizations. He promotes homeschooling, and specifically unschooling.
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