A thesis on Multi age classrooms

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The song of the Iora

Take Back Your Education By John Taylor Gatto

Take Back Your Education By John Taylor Gatto

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AT THE HEART OF A FACT

AT THE HEART OF A FACT

What  is fact and what is not fact? What  is real and what is  the  gossamer mirage  of  an imagination?

When  I look out of the window  and see  a  tree there springs a question. I see the leaves and branches with the vocabulary of fragments. I name the tree in words. Neither  the idiom of fragments nor the words really get me to be in touch  with the fact - the fact of what is there.  I then try to see without thought. What I see, what I experience is neither  a description nor  an  image. There is something out there and that is a fact -  I call it a tree. By calling it a tree I lose that something. In touch with  that something I am wordless. To discover fact  one  has  to cast  away  from  the moorings of words and images, so affectionately engraved in our minds.

April 18, 1989