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When you teach a child something you take away forever his chance of discovering it for himself. — Jean Piaget
If we taught babies to talk as most skills are taught in school, they would memorize lists of sounds in a predetermined order and practice… — Linda Darling-Hammond
School days, I believe, are the unhappiest in the whole span of human existence. — H. L. Mencken
The old system where every child was locked away and set into nonstop, daily cut throat competition with every other child for silly prizes called… — John Taylor Gatto
None of the world's problems will have a solution until the world's individuals become thoroughly self-educated. — R. Buckminster Fuller
I think schools generally do an effective and terribly damaging job of teaching children to be infantile, dependent, intellectually dishonest, passive and disrespectful to their… — Seymour Papert
As far as I have seen, at school...they aimed at blotting out one's individuality. — Franz Kafka
School presents daily exercises in dis-association. It forces unwelcome associations on most of its prisoners. It sets petty, meaningless competitions in motion on a daily… — John Taylor Gatto
Just as eating against one's will is injurious to health, so studying without a liking for it spoils the memory, and it retains nothing it… — Leonardo da Vinci
Like jilted and disappointed lovers, some of my students just want to be left alone. — Kirsten Olson
My schooling not only failed to teach me what it professed to be teaching, but prevented me from being educated to an extent which infuriates… — George Bernard Shaw
Education itself is a putting off, a postponement; we are told to work hard to get good results. Why? So we can get a good… — Tom Hodgkinson
We don't yet know, above all, what the world might be like if children were to grow up without being subjected to humiliation, if parents… — Alice Miller
Learning from programmed information always hides reality behind a screen. — Ivan Illich
It was never factually true that young people learn to read or do arithmetic primarily by being taught these things. These things are learned, but… — John Taylor Gatto
School prepares for the alienating institutionalization of life by teaching the need to be taught. — Ivan Illich
We have a cultural notion that if children were not engineered, if we did not manipulate them, they would grow up as beasts in the… — Joseph Chilton Pearce
A 'school-at-home' approach to homeschooling is just decorating the electric chair in different colors. — Joseph Chilton Pearce
Schools have not necessarily much to do with education...they are mainly institutions of control where certain basic habits must be inculcated in the young. Education… — Winston Churchill
If we value independence, if we are disturbed by the growing conformity of knowledge, of values, of attitudes, which our present system induces, then we… — Carl Rogers

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