约翰·泰勒·盖托（，），美国作家和教育家，擁有30年课堂教学教龄的退休老师。他强烈的批评强迫式学校，青春期和成人期的强制割裂，以及强权式的对教育以及教育职业的讨论。

生平
盖托生于匹兹堡地区的钢铁城市宾夕法尼亚州的Monongahela。在他的青年时期，他在多所公立学校以及一所天主教会寄宿学校读过书。在康奈尔大学，匹兹堡大学，和哥伦比亚大学读过本科，并在美军的医疗部服役过。退役后，在纽约城市大学，Hunter College，Yeshiva University, 加州大学，还有康奈尔大学进行研究生的学习。

他当过作家并做过其他各种工作，直到他借了室友的证书去调查教书。他还作为纽约州保守党的成员在1985，1988年参加过纽约州议会，29区的选举。他被评为纽约市1989，1990，和1991年的最佳教师，以及纽约州1991年的最佳教师。在1991年，他给华尔街日报写了封名为[https://web.archive.org/web/20040203180418/http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/underground/prologue2.htm 我不干了，我去思考]的信，宣告他的辞职。在信中，他说他不希望再继续“以伤害儿童为生”了。他于是开始了公开演讲和写作的职业生涯，并获得了许多liberarian组织颁发的奖章。

他推崇在家自学，尤其是unschooling。

目前盖托正在拍摄一个含三部分的关于强制性学校的纪录片，名为第四个目的。他说是受到 Ken Burns的Civil War的启发。

主要观点
学校对学生有什么作用？盖托在《愚弄我们》一书中，提出一下几点：

让学生困惑。学校提供了一套彼此脱离的信息让学生去记忆以求能够继续呆在学校里。考试除了起到和电视机类似的功能外，占用了学生所有的自由时间。学生看见听见一些，然后就都忘记了。

学校教学生接受班级的归属

学校让学生变得冷漠

学校让学生在情感上变得有依赖性

学校让学生在智力上变得有依赖性

学校教学生养成了一种来自专家认可的自信

学校让学生明白他们不能逃避，因为他们总是被管理着的。

参考文献
外部連結

• [http://www.johntaylorgatto.com 官方网站]
• [http://www.kinzaacademy.com Kinza Academy] , Homeschooling with the Classics. Gatto is on the Advisory Board.
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20100608101825/http://www.homeschoolnewslink.com/homeschool/columnists/gatto.shtml Collection of essays] Gatto is a regular columnist for The Link Homeschool Newspaper
• [http://www.wtp.org/archive/transcripts/john_taylor_gatto.html Transcript of radio interview with Jerry Brown]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20071231151759/http://www.waaromonderwijs.nl/ Gatto's November 2007 visit to Netherlands: audio, video and articles]

*[http://layla.miltsov.org/reviews/#gatto Book reviews] by Layla AR
*[http://www.theorganizedunschooler.com/free-john-taylor-gatto-book-the-underground-history-of-american-education/ The Underground History of American Education by John Taylor Gatto (complete download)]

作品和讲座

• [http://www.wesjones.com/gatto1.htm "Against School"] – originally published in Harper's Magazine, September 2003
• [http://www.cantrip.org/gatto.html "The Six-Lesson Schoolteacher"] – originally published in Whole Earth Review, Fall 1991
• [http://the7lessonteacher.com/ The Seven Lesson School Teacher]
• [http://arquivo.pt/wayback/20090721085326/http://www.noogenesis.com/game_theory/Gatto/Gatto.html A set of quotes from Gatto and links to original essays]
• [http://www.school-survival.net/articles/school/history/Institutional_schooling_must_be_destroyed.php "Institutional Schooling Must Be Destroyed"]
• [http://www.school-survival.net/articles/school/history/The_tyranny_of_compulsory_schooling.php "The Tyranny Of Compulsory Schooling"]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20111004184229/http://www.diablovalleyschool.org/nightmare.shtml "The Public School Nightmare: Why fix a system designed to destroy individual thought?"], article published by Diablo Valley School
• [http://www.naturalchild.org/guest/john_gatto.html "Why Schools Don't Educate - Teacher of the Year acceptance speech"]
• [http://www.4Brevard.com/choice/Public_Education.htm "A Short Angry History of American Forced Schooling"]
• [http://layla.miltsov.org/reviews/#gatto Book reviews] by Layla AR
• [http://www.ttfuture.org/files/2/pdf/gotto_interview.pdf Everything We Think About Schooling Is Wrong!] – Interview with Gatto (PDF file download)
• [http://www.wesjones.com/gatto1.htm "Against School"] – originally published in Harper's Magazine, September 2003
• [http://arquivo.pt/wayback/20090721085326/http://www.noogenesis.com/game_theory/Gatto/Gatto.html A set of quotes from Gatto and links to original essays]

多媒体
*
[https://web.archive.org/web/20100111193655/http://www.nicolefilms.com/vidpg_4thpurpose.html 4th Purpose Promo] – Trailer for The Fourth Purpose*
*[http://www.educationrevolution.org/johngatto.html John Gatto Keynote Talks] - Video: Five complete keynote talks by John Gatto (2004–2010)
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20110925202101/http://www.altruists.org/downloads/by_subject/others/education/ Altruists.org] – download audio files of some of Gatto's talks
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20060710035721/http://edflix.org/gatto.htm Video of Gatto interview, broken into topic sections]

• [http://www.radio4all.net/index.php?op=program-info&program_id=8005&nav=&; Speech at a home schooling Conference by Radio for Peace] (MP3)

*[http://www.lewrockwell.com/lewrockwell-show/2010/08/24/157-we-dont-need-no-education-we-dont-need-no-thought-control-no-dark-sarcasm-in-the-classroom-teachers-leave-them-kids-alone/ The Lew Rockwell Show, Aug 25, 2010]

• [https://web.archive.org/web/20080808141702/http://www.altruists.org/gatto Collection of Gatto Files], mainly MP3s