Education Quote by Deborah Kenny

“For Dewey, the Great Community was the basic fact of history. The individual and the soul were invalid concepts, man was truly man, not…

— R.J. Rushdoony

“Public education does not serve a public. It creates a public. And in creating the right kind of public, the schools contribute toward strengthening…

— Neil Postman

“The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think—rather to improve our minds, so as to…

— Mike Byster

“The public education system did not promote the enlightenment of the individual, but rather suppressed critical thought and neurodiversity. It produced preformatted, standardized, and…

— Rajinder Jhol

“It is 100 years since John Dewey began arguing for the kind of change that would move schools away from authoritarian classrooms with abstract…

— Seymour Papert

“That the public library is a part of the educational system should never be lost sight of in the work of establishing it, or…

— John Cotton Dana

“In the main, the trouble with American education is that we have put into practice the educational philosophy expounded by John Dewey and his…

— Barry M. Goldwater

Public education is a great instrument of social change. Through it, if we so desire, we can make our country more nearly a democracy…

— James Bryant Conant

“since the AP curriculum was nationally standardized. If they wanted to turn the public schools into chain stores, it worked for him.”

— Lisa Scottoline

The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the…

— H. L. Mencken

“[The public school system is] usually a twelve year sentence of mind control. Crushing creativity, smashing individualism, encouraging collectivism and compromise, destroying the exercise…

— Walter Karp

The first goal and primary function of the U.S. public school is not to educate good people, but good citizens. It is the function…

— Jonathan Kozol