The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Learning from programmed information always hides reality behind a screen. — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
“An uncorked kid to me is an expression as to who they truly are and isn't it that that as adults we… — Lehla Eldridge 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
“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
There is nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school. — George Bernard Shaw 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
I loved learning, it was school I hated. I used to cut school to go learn something. — Eric Jensen Copy Share Image
School prepares for the alienating institutionalization of life by teaching the need to be taught. — Ivan Illich 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
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
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
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
“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
“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
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
It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy… — Albert Einstein 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
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 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
“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
“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
“Unschooling challenges the established paradigms of education and presents an alternative that honors and nurtures the unique strengths and interests of each… — Kytka Hilmar-Jezek 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
“When people say that school prepares children for the real world, what's implied is that it is the difficult parts of school… — Rue Kream 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
“To understand a child we have to watch him at play, study him in his different moods; we cannot project upon him… — J. Krishnamurti 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
“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
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
Education with inert ideas is not only useless; it is above all things harmful. — Alfred North Whitehead 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
