Alan Alda and his wife Arlene are two of the most life-affirming people I've ever met. He espoused equal rights for women… — Sanjeev Bhaskar Copy Share Image
Schools have not necessarily much to do with education...they are mainly institutions of control where certain basic habits must be inculcated in… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
In the history of everyone in whom the artist-within has survived conditioning, schooling, training - there are (persons) influences that have kept… — Frederick Franck Copy Share Image
These doctors, who had long experience with people in pain in addition to their traditional training and schooling, had discovered that nothing… — Marni Jackson Copy Share Image
“One problem with the way the educational system is set up is that it only recognizes a certain type of intelligence, and… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
“In tracking what people have to say about schooling, I notice that most of the conversation is about means, rarely about ends.… — Neil Postman, The End of Education Copy Share Image
Hunger, inadequate medical care, poor housing, and inferior schools are enemies of the sense of wonder. It is easier and less expensive… — Margaret Geller Copy Share Image
For being a young guy, I'm articulate and can hold a decent conversation with somebody. But I've been able to do that… — Larry Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
We are, all of us, creatures of habit, and when the seeeming necessity for schooling ourselves in new ways ceases to exist,… — Edgar Rice Burroughs Copy Share Image
But curriculum-wise, I was drawn to the sciences and specifically to physics, and I really enjoyed it and I think for a… — Brian Henson Copy Share Image
Governments, existing primarily to protect and enhance capitalism, maintain their power through the use of technologies that control the populace - by… — Kirkpatrick Sale Copy Share Image
Slowly I began to realize that the bells and the confinement, the crazy sequences, the age-segregation, the lack of privacy, the constant… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
I don't think schooling of any sort really prepares you for real life. I don't know if art school would have prepared… — Dave Gibbons Copy Share Image
“Cambridge exceeded our most macabre expectations ... the arm-chairs, the crumpets, the beautifully-bound eighteenth century volumes, the fires roaring in stoked grates.… — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
I think college is an absolute. In this world you have to learn how to learn and get in the habit of… — Mark Cuban Copy Share Image
I feel sorry for the poor kids whose parents feel they're qualified to teach them at home. Of course, some parents are… — Dick Cavett Copy Share Image
The sense of justice springs from self-respect; both are coeval with our birth. Children are born with an innate sense of justice;… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
We do not segment our lives, giving some time to God, some to our business or schooling, while keeping parts to ourselves.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Do we really need school? I don't mean education, just forced schooling: six classes a day, five days a week, nine months… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
We lived in Northern Quebec, and the nearest school was thirty miles away, so my mother took on the task of home… — Willard Boyle Copy Share Image
God was pitched out of forced schooling on his ear after WWII. This wasn't because of any constitutional proscription-there was none that… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
Schools are not intended to moralize a wicked world, but to impart knowledge and develop intelligence, with only two social aims in… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
I mean, growing up in New Orleans when you're in seventh and eighth grade and you're into music and you're a dorky… — Steve Zissis Copy Share Image
“The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not… — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
To learn to see- to accustom the eye to calmness, to patience, and to allow things to come up to it; to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If I was freer than I had ever been in my life, I was not yet entirely free, for I still hung… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The process of schooling does not give birth to human beings - as education should but never will so long as it… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
Film was something that I didn't see as a step up from music videos, though obviously, music videos, the fact that you… — Anton Corbijn Copy Share Image
The important outcomes of schooling include not only the acquisition of new conceptual tools, refined sensibilities, a developed imagination, and new routines… — Elliot W. Eisner Copy Share Image
we must go on fighting for basic education for all, but also emphasize the importance of the content of education. We have… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
Government schooling made people dumber, not brighter; made families weaker; ruined formal religion with its hard-sell exclusion of God; set the class… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
