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Education, the great mumbo jumbo and fraud of the age purports to equip us to live and is prescribed as a universal remedy for everything… — Malcolm Muggeridge
Every teacher should realize he is a social servant set apart for the maintenance of the proper social order and the securing of the right… — John Dewey
Far from failing in its intended task, our educational system is in fact succeeding magnificently, because its aim is to keep the American people thoughtless… — Richard Mitchell
Gandhi was much more Christian than many people who say they are Christians. — Pope John Paul II
Government will not fail to employ education, to strengthen its hands and perpetuate its institutions. — William Godwin
Growth and mastery come only to those who vigorously self-direct. Initiating, creating, doing, reflecting, freely associating, enjoying privacy-these are precisely what the structures of schooling… — John Taylor Gatto
Holy War is a contradiction of terms... — Elie Wiesel
I hated school so intensely. It interfered with my freedom — Sigrid Undset
I have not the least doubt that school developed in me nothing but what was evil and left the good untouched. — Edvard Grieg
I teach how to fit into a world I don't want to live in. I just can't do it anymore. — John Taylor Gatto
It is much easier to condemn a child than to understand a child. — Jiddu Krishnamurti
It is the absolute right of the State to supervise the formation of public opinion. — Joseph Goebbels
Let me control the textbooks, and I will control the state. — Adolf Hitler
Let our pupil be taught that he does not belong to himself, but that he is public property. Let him be taught to love his… — Benjamin Rush
Punishments and rewards are two sides of the same coin and that coin doesn't buy you much. — Alfie Kohn
School is the first impression children get of organized society. Like most first impressions it is the lasting one. Life is dull and stupid, only… — John Taylor Gatto
Show me the man who has enjoyed his schooldays and I will show you a bully and a bore. — Robert Morley
The millions of dollars which we devote every year to high-school education are, for the most part, money spent for the retarding of intelligence, the… — Bernard Iddings Bell
The premise upon which mass compulsion schooling is based is dead wrong. It tries to shoehorn every style, culture, and personality into one ugly boot… — John Taylor Gatto
The shocking possibility that dumb people don't exist in sufficient numbers to warrant the millions of careers devoted to tending them will seem incredible to… — John Taylor Gatto

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