“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
Learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“It’s good and just that you practice on teachers and school principals, because one day you are going to have to live… — Brian Huskie 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
“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
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
“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
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
“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
“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
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
I imagine a school system that recognizes learning is natural, that a love of learning is normal, and that real learning is… — Tom Peters 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
“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
“We smashed their schools, burned them, and shot people based on the time of night they were outside. They dressed up like… — Brian Huskie 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
I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built upon the supposition… — Anne Sullivan Macy 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
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
“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
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
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
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
Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual. — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Creative work and critical thought, which produces new knowledge, can't be conditioned; indeed, conditioning prevents these things from ever happening. — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
Education rears disciples, imitators, and routinists, not pioneers of new ideas and creative geniuses. The schools are not nurseries of progress and… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Sadly, children's passion for thinking often ends when they encounter a world that seeks to educate them for conformity and obedience only. — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
“Being lawful and following the rules means allowing their reality to become your reality, and their reality includes you pledging your allegiance… — Brian Huskie Copy Share Image
What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
If we taught babies to talk as most skills are taught in school, they would memorize lists of sounds in a predetermined… — Linda Darling-Hammond Copy Share Image
Society highly values its normal man. It educates children to lose themselves and to become absurd, and thus to be normal. — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
Educating the masses was intended only to improve the relationship between the top and the bottom of society. Not for changing the… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
It was at home I learned the little I know. Schools always appeared to me like a prison, and never could I… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
Actually, all education is self-education. A teacher is only a guide, to point out the way, and no school, no matter how… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
I am concerned that too many people are focused too much on money and not on their greatest wealth, which is their… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“This guy tried to kill me, he’s out there, and I’m going to blow his f***ng head off.' Nothing happened for a… — Brian Huskie Copy Share Image
