What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Show me the man who has enjoyed his schooldays and I will show you a bully and a bore. — Robert Morley Copy Share Image
The result desired by the state is a wholly different one from that desired by parents, guardians, and pupils. — Lester Frank Ward Copy Share Image
They say that we are better educated than our parents' generation. What they mean is that we go to school longer. They… — Douglas Yates Copy Share Image
I remember that I was never able to get along at school. I was at the foot of the class. — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
That everyone may receive at least a moderate education appears to be an objective of vital importance. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The things taught in schools & colleges are not an education but the means of education. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Education is a weapon the effect of which is determined by the hands which wield it, by who is to be struck… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
The role of the schoolmaster is to collect little plastic lumps of human dough from private households and shape them on the… — Edward Alsworth Ross 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
The shocking possibility that dumb people don't exist in sufficient numbers to warrant the millions of careers devoted to tending them will… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
Education, the great mumbo jumbo and fraud of the age purports to equip us to live and is prescribed as a universal… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
School is the first impression children get of organized society. Like most first impressions it is the lasting one. Life is dull… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
Anyone who stops learning is old — whether this happens at twenty or at eighty. Anyone who keeps on learning not only… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. The average American [should be] content with their humble role in… — William Torrey Harris Copy Share Image
After a child has arrived at the legal age for attending school,-whether he be the child of noble or of peasant,-the only… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
The more subsidized it is, the less free it is. What is known as 'free education' is the least free of all,… — Frank Chodorov Copy Share Image
Our schools are, in a sense, factories, in which the raw products (children) are to be shaped and fashioned into products to… — Ellwood Patterson Cubberley Copy Share Image
It's time to admit that public education operates like a planned economy, a bureaucratic system in which everybody's role is spelled out… — Albert Shanker Copy Share Image
Nothing enrages me more than when people criticize my criticism of school by telling me that schools are not just places to… — Seymour Papert Copy Share Image
Who besides a degraded rabble would voluntarily present itself to be graded and classified like meat? No wonder school is compulsory. — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
I'd like to do something for inner-city schools and education for young people because it's constantly being cut. — Ansel Elgort Copy Share Image
I believe that school makes complete fools of our young men, because they see and hear nothing of ordinary life there. — Petronius Copy Share Image
A succession of eye-openers each involving the repudiation of some previously held belief. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The reason why I hated school so intensely [was that] it interfered with my freedom. — Sigrid Undset Copy Share Image
We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The child should be taught to consider his instructor...superior to the parent in point of authority… The vulgar impression that parents have… — John Swett Copy Share Image
Where once a tyrant had to wish that his subjects had but one common neck that he might strangle them all at… — Richard Mitchell Copy Share Image
Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Government schooling is the most radical adventure in history. It kills the family by monopolizing the best times of childhood and by… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
I think schools generally do an effective and terribly damaging job of teaching children to be infantile, dependent, intellectually dishonest, passive and… — Seymour Papert Copy Share Image
I have not the least doubt that school developed in me nothing but what was evil and left the good untouched. — Edvard Grieg Copy Share Image
Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual. — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
A general State education is a mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactly like one another, and as the mould in… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
For years, the Democrats have controlled the inner cities; some up to 100 years; some over 100 years; unbroken. I say to… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Let our pupil be taught that he does not belong to himself, but that he is public property. Let him be taught… — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
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