“In the race of life I would rather to be around the best and sink than to be around mediocrity and swim.” — Xela Ffonrims Copy Share Image
School days, I believe, are the unhappiest in the whole span of human existence. — H. L. Mencken 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
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
Accepting the key premise that the learner is the primary customer of schooling means others follow naturally. ... The core business of… — David Hood Copy Share Image
The premise upon which mass compulsion schooling is based is dead wrong. It tries to shoehorn every style, culture, and personality into… — John Taylor Gatto 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
I can only think that the book is read because it deals with the difficulties of schooling, which do not change. Please… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
After it's all over, the early childhood, a chain of birthdays woven with candlelight, piles of presents, voices of relatives singing and… — Anonymous 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
“...some nights I'd sneak out and listen to the radio in my Dad's old Chevy - children need solitude - they don't… — John Geddes Copy Share Image
It is home schooling that is rejecting a narrowness. It is not a radical value system; it's actually quite conservative. — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
“Since in early youth it cannot be known what ends are likely to occur to us in the course of life, parents… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
It's great to be with you gun-toting, 10ther, pro-life, Austrian-economics, home-schooling, redoubt-living, Constitutionalist patriots this evening. I think that covers the SPLC's… — Matt Shea Copy Share Image
The first aim of a good college is not to teach books, but the meaning and purpose of life. Hard study and… — John B. Watson Copy Share Image
“Mr. Polly went into the National School at six and he left the private school at fourteen, and by that time his… — H.G. Wells 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
Through private investment capitalism kept raising the productivity of labor to new heights. Parents were able to earn enough so their offspring… — Richard Ebeling Copy Share Image
“To stimulate life, leaving it free, however, to unfold itself--that is the first duty of the educator.” — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
