In the end, the secret to learning is so simple: Think only about whatever you love. Follow it, do it, dream about… — Grace Llewellyn Copy Share Image
“Each of us is born with a crazy passion to learn. Each of us craves knowledge of our world and our place… — Ps Pirro Copy Share Image
Public school - where the human mind is drilled and manipulated into submission to various social and moral spooks, and thus fitted… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Unschooling is creating an environment in which children can learn easily and naturally all the time. — Sandra Dodd Copy Share Image
Traditional education focuses on teaching, not learning. It incorrectly assumes that for every ounce of teaching there is an ounce of learning… — Russell L. Ackoff Copy Share Image
“For many years I have been asking myself why intelligent children act unintelligently at school. The simple answer is, "Because they're scared."… — John Holt Copy Share Image
“It was my assumption that skilled teachers spent their days imparting important and meaningful knowledge to eager students. I also believed, as… — Brian Huskie Copy Share Image
“And there you sit, atop the smoking mountain of rubble that was once your home, covered in gray dust, cradling the mangled… — Brian Huskie Copy Share Image
It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“For those of you who may be homeschooled: high school is that four-year asylum where they put teenagers because we have no… — Anthony Esolen Copy Share Image
“Maybe you’ve noticed what I’ve noticed, and thought it strange, or dismissed it as youthful foolishness or that you were missing some… — Brian Huskie Copy Share Image
It is absurd and anti-life to be part of a system that compels you to listen to a stranger reading poetry when… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
“How many of us have read history, and shook our heads and puffed our chest, and said, “If I were alive during… — Brian Huskie Copy Share Image
For those orderly folks who have life all neatly arranged in their heads, who do more accepting than questioning, unschooling is a… — Sandra Dodd Copy Share Image
“This idea that children won't learn without outside rewards and penalties, or in the debased jargon of the behaviorists, "positive and negative… — John Holt Copy Share Image
“The most important question I ask myself as a parent is this. How can I best help my children be fully themselves… — Lehla Eldridge Copy Share Image
School prepares for the alienating institutionalization of life by teaching the need to be taught. — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
“To learn how to do, we need something real to focus on — not a task assigned by someone else, but something… — Lori McWilliam Pickert 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
“If the educational system can claim anything consistently it would be that it is masterful at evoking a destructive axis of boredom… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I look back at all the crap I learned in high school, it's a wonder I can think at all. — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
“I no longer believe that the current education system is able to equip our children for a fast-moving future. Technology has evolved… — Lehla Eldridge Copy Share Image
As far as I have seen, at school...they aimed at blotting out one's individuality. — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius. — William Blake Copy Share Image
