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
How I hated schools, and what a life of anxiety I lived there. I counted the hours to the end of every… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The whole educational and professional training system is a very elaborate filter, which just weeds out people who are too independent, and… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“The belief that young people are incapable of making reasonable decisions is a cornerstone of our system of compulsory, closely monitored education.” — Peter O. Gray Copy Share Image
“Our freedom of speech is not some cute, optional, anachronistic thing that you write about on a short answer quiz about school… — Brian Huskie Copy Share Image
Life can only be understood backwards but you have to live it forward. You can only do that by stepping into uncertainty… — Charles Handy Copy Share Image
Education itself is a putting off, a postponement; we are told to work hard to get good results. Why? So we can… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
“Allowing children to learn about what interests them is good, but helping them do it in a meaningful, rigorous way is better.… — Lori McWilliam Pickert Copy Share Image
When you get down to it, unschooling is really just a fancy term for 'life' or 'growing up uninstitutionalized'. — Grace Llewellyn Copy Share Image
School days, I believe, are the unhappiest in the whole span of human existence. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
In England ... education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
School is about learning to wait your turn, however long it takes to come, if ever. And how to submit with a… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
“School vision statements often read something like, “We believe all kids can learn” or “life-long learners” or something silly like that. What… — Brian Huskie Copy Share Image
I loved learning, it was school I hated. I used to cut school to go learn something. — Eric Jensen Copy Share Image
“Leaders are not, as we are often led to think, people who go along with huge crowds following them. Leaders are people… — John Holt 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
“I tend to agree with Robert Frost when he says, 'Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your… — Brian Huskie Copy Share Image
“I’m sure if Socrates were alive today, and had to sit through even a single meeting discussing how to use data to… — Brian Huskie Copy Share Image
Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds. — Plato Copy Share Image
“Know what you’re working toward and eliminate debt, so that if you change your mind later it doesn’t kill you to know… — Brian Huskie Copy Share Image
We must reject all notions of 'reform' that serve up more of the same: more testing, more 'standards', more uniformity, more conformity,… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
“Going to school is rarely a choice at all, but rather just the thing you do because everyone else does it.” — Brian Huskie Copy Share Image
It is among the commonplaces of education that we often first cut off the living root and then try to replace its… — Alice Duer Miller Copy Share Image
