Alternative-education Quote by Anonymous

“Education lays the foundation of a large portion of the causes of mental disorder”

— Malcolm Gladwell

“A chorus of voices exhorts kids to study science. No one stops to ask whether it is inhumane to force adolescents to spend the…

— Theodore J. Kaczynski

“The truth is that when we scrub joy and comfort from the classroom, we distance our students from effective information processing and long-term memory…

— Terry Marselle

“Education is intended to shape the minds of individuals to be productive. Yet, it could also drive people to be counter-productive.”

— Clarence T. Rivers

“Remember that it is good for children to be bored sometimes. Children who are not continually provided with stimuli develop more active imaginations, a…

— Sara Maitland

“...childhood boredom is a special kind of boredom. It is a boredom full of dreams, a sort of projection into another place, into another…

— Italo Calvino

Boredom is the specter that haunts children from kindergarten to graduation on every continent.

— Amanda Ripley

“Boredom might be construed as the impetus for achievement rather than as an obstacle to it.”

— Susan Maushart

Education must enable young people to effect what they have recognized to be right, despite hardships, despite dangers, despite inner skepticism, despite boredom, and…

— Kurt Hahn

Innately, children seem to have little true realistic anxiety. They will run along the brink of water, climb on the window sill, play with…

— Sigmund Freud

“Adolescent sanity is so twentieth century”

— John Green

“Education which fails to clarify our central convictions is mere training or indulgence. For it is our central convictions that are in disorder, and,…

— E.F. Schumacher