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
Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius. — William Blake 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
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
Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds. — Plato 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
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
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
As far as I have seen, at school...they aimed at blotting out one's individuality. — Franz Kafka 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
“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
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
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
“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
“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
“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
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
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 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
“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
“Compulsion – nonconsensual education – requires violence; it requires complete control over what students put into their brain, the people they are… — Brian Huskie 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
“Children, even when very young, have the capacity for inventive thought and decisive action. They have worthwhile ideas. They make perceptive connections.… — Lori McWilliam Pickert Copy Share Image
The function of high school, then, is not so much to communicate knowledge as to oblige children finally to accept the grading… — Jules Henry 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
Unschooling is creating an environment in which children can learn easily and naturally all the time. — Sandra Dodd Copy Share Image
School days, I believe, are the unhappiest in the whole span of human existence. — H. L. Mencken 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
