Due to financial reasons, I dropped out of school after eight years of formal schooling. — Philip Emeagwali Copy Share Image
School days, I believe, are the unhappiest in the whole span of human existence. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“My opinion is that a school with no playground isn't a school at all.” — Mohith Agadi Copy Share Image
“If we spark a student's passion, we unleash a powerful force upon the world.” — Tim Fargo Copy Share Image
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
If the schooling system does not rapidly close the gap between what it does, and what it should do in response to… — David Hood Copy Share Image
I thought I wanted to be a brain surgeon until I realized all the schooling it required. I didn't like school very… — Lexa Doig Copy Share Image
That was my aspiration, so I was there in a seminary with just boys who were studying to be priests. Pretty rigorous… — Peter Jurasik Copy Share Image
Death from this life is just graduation from this grade. It's our release, our graduation, our promotion. School is out! We've finished… — David Berg Copy Share Image
For more than 220 years - from the 1620s to the 1840s - most American schooling was independent of government control, subsidy,… — Marshall Fritz Copy Share Image
Dancing is imperatively needed to give poise to the nerves, schooling to the emotions, strength to the will, and to harmonize the… — G. Stanley Hall Copy Share Image
I started home-schooling when I was in elementary school because my parents were really busy back then. They didn't have time to… — Rich Brian Copy Share Image
In the 1960s, The National Education Association changed its character. The NEA changed into a union. And from that point on you… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
School divides life into two segments, which are increasingly of comparable length. As much as anything else, schooling implies custodial care for… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
We have to abandon the idea that schooling is something restricted to youth. How can it be, in a world where half… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
I was born in London, England, in 1938, a few months before the war, and spent the first years of my life… — Anne Perry Copy Share Image
The phenomenon of home schooling is a wonderful example of the American can-do attitude. Growing numbers of parents have become disenchanted with… — Steve Forbes Copy Share Image
High-profile columnists should remember they are in a privileged position. Writing isn't a dreadfully specific skill - it's taught to millions via… — Rob Manuel Copy Share Image
The first eight years of schooling was with all white people. So that helped me to understand how white people think. I… — Will Smith Copy Share Image
This was once a land where every sane person knew how to build a shelter, grow food, and entertain one another. Now… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
Growth and mastery come only to those who vigorously self-direct. Initiating, creating, doing, reflecting, freely associating, enjoying privacy-these are precisely what the… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
“Universal education through schooling is not feasible. It would be no more feasible if it were attempted by means of alternative institutions… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
We were not born critical of existing society. There was a moment in our lives (or a month, or a year) when… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
The production of knowledge in schools today is instrumental, wedded to objective outcomes, privatized, and is largely geared to produce consuming subjects.… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
“The fact that no one made demands on her knowledge in her special field was lucky for Simochka. Not only she but… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
I don’t think we’ll get rid of schools any time soon, certainly not in my lifetime, but if we’re going to change… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
You know, people always warn children about taking candy from strange adults. But they never warn us adults about taking candy from… — Pseudonymous Bosch Copy Share Image
“There is no such source and cause of strife, quarrel, fights, malignant opposition, persecution, and war, and all evil in the state,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Not to find one's way around a city does not mean much. But to lose one's way in a city, as one… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
