John Taylor Gatto Quotes

Kids get bored easily. They have got to get out and get their hands dirty: make things, dismantle things, fix things.

I absolutely love any kind of outdoor activities like snowboarding, hiking, surfing, and laying out on the beach if I ever get the time... which is not often!

One of the advantages of travelling the world is that you get to know the world broadly. And one of the advantages of staying in one place is that you get to know the world deeply.

Imagine - four years you could have spent travelling around Europe meeting people, or going to the Far East of Africa or India, meeting people, exchanging ideas, reading all you wanted to anyway, and instead I wasted it at Roosevelt.

I'm certainly not very book smart, but I started traveling at 16, and it has enriched me in ways I could never begin to explain.

My best sources are my travels and my collection of National Geographic.

We are getting an education of a lifetime. We're actually out there in the real world.

The world is the true classroom. The most rewarding and important type of learning is through experience, seeing something with our own eyes.

I am immediately disinterested when I hear mountain-climbing stories.

The vast majority of young people I meet would benefit so much from a year off. You should just go waste a year in exploring the beauty of the world and trying the craziest experiences you can.

Hiking, scuba diving - I just love getting out and doing things.

Life experiences cannot be learnt on the film set or in front of the camera.

I travel all the time. And as I go around the world, I try to learn a little something and not just take up all the available air.

The art of climbing is to go where you go knowing that you could die, but you don't die. That is adventure.

I want your first trip to be with me. I want to show you cities and landscapes and teach you how to look at things in new ways and how to get along in places you don't already know inside out. I want to put some life in you.

Only practical work and experience lead the young to maturity.

The experienced mountain climber is not intimidated by a mountain - he is inspired by it.

In a short amount of time, I've lived so much, had so many experiences and met so many different types of people and even lived in so many countries. If I had been in school, I'd be learning about the world from books.

I never was content unless I was trying my skill...or testing my endurance.

Traveling, I am finding, teaches you a lot of things about yourself. For instance, I never thought myself to be the kind of person who pees into a mostly empty bottle of Bluefin energy drink while driving through South Carolina at seventy-seven miles per hour - but in face I am that kind of person.

If you’re twenty-two, physically fit, hungry to learn and be better, I urge you to travel – as far and as widely as possible. Sleep on floors if you have to. Find out how other people live and eat and cook. Learn from them – wherever you go.

We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.

The adrenaline and stress of an adventure are better than a thousand peaceful days.

Everybody needs adventure, and everybody needs something to enlarge his or her lives.

I travel because I want to know. Books and documentaries will only get you so far. If you want to know, you will have to go.