Grades don't measure anything other than your relevant obedience to a manager.

Excelente entrevista con John Gatto :).

Algunas partes interesantes:

Schools, he says, are irremediably broken. Built to supply a mass-production economy with a docile workforce, they ask too little of children, and thereby drain youngsters of curiosity and autonomy.

...the truth is that genius is an exceedingly common human quality, probably natural to most of us.

Memorizing notes off the board is not real work.

To teach people that we work to get money to buy stuff is insane...

...a school system, since it's an indoctrination system...

"Changing classes lasts 300 seconds to keep promiscuous fraternization at low levels."

Él escribió esto también The Seven Lesson Schoolteacher muy recomendable.

Contradicción? O no.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
— Oscar Wilde

“Thomas Stanley has not only found no correlation between success in school and an ability to accumulate wealth, he’s actually found a negative correlation. ‘It seems that school-related evaluations are poor predictors of economic success,’ Stanley concluded. What did predict success was a willingness to take risks. Yet the success-failure standards of most schools penalized risk takers. Most educational systems reward those who play it safe. As a result, those who do well in school find it hard to take risks later on.”
—Richard Farson & Ralph Keyes, Whoever Makes the Most Mistakes Wins

"The best way to predict the future is to invent it." -Alan Kay