Abandon Quote by Arthur C. Clarke

“Why not eliminate schooling between age 12-16? It’s biologically + psychologically too turbulent a time to be cooped up inside, made to sit all…

— Susan Sontag

Perhaps we need to separate youth from education. Education lasts forever. Youth is the time for exploration, maturation, socialization.

— Jeff Jarvis

“Our current education system was created in the late 1800s and early 1900s, and was modeled after the new factories of the industrial revolution.…

— Robert Epstein

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

When you have schools that are operating in the 20th century, and we're trying to prepare our children for the 21st century, even those…

— Donna Edwards

The education of young people is narrowing. They cannot have the scope they used to have. They are being taught in high school by…

— Frederick Busch

I despise the fact that the youth today acts as if being youthful is the answer to everything. It's a very young minded perspective…

— Sean Garrett

The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant people are. With anyone over fifty you can be fairly confident what's been…

— Evelyn Waugh

Youth should be kept strangers to all that is bad, and especially to things which suggest vice or hate. When the five years have…

— Aristotle

In a society in which the median age keeps advancing, we have no choice but to keep redefining youth.

— Tom Junod

Youth was so mercilessly hard in its decisions; it had its own unyielding standards and had not yet learned enough to know that time…

— Winston Graham

“...young people know very little about themselves and their abilities. When the day comes on which they discover their real strong points and their…

— Hugo Munsterberg