“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
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
“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
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
“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
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
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
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 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
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
“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
“If a law violates a person’s liberty, is it not our duty to disobey? Is it not your ethical responsibility to act?… — Brian Huskie 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
“A teenager’s nature is not laziness, their preferred state is not ignorance, and it is not necessary for extrinsic motivation to be… — Brian Huskie 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
“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
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
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
“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
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
“You would think that after fifteen years of war on terror, waged by a country with nuclear submarines, all terror on earth… — Brian Huskie 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
“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
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 prepares for the alienating institutionalization of life by teaching the need to be taught. — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
Education with inert ideas is not only useless; it is above all things harmful. — Alfred North Whitehead 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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
“The philosophy of project-based homeschooling — this particular approach to helping children become strong thinkers, learners, and doers — is dependent upon… — Lori McWilliam Pickert 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
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
“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
“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
