Break Quote by Derrick Jensen

School takes 13 years, because that is how long it takes to break a child's spirit.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

“Why do people take or keep their children out of school? Mostly for three reasons: they think that raising their children is their business…

— John Holt

All one can really leave one's children is what's inside their heads. Education, in other words, and not earthly possessions, is the ultimate legacy,…

— Anonymous

Each day that passes without kids being able to go to school is an enormous burden on the future.

— Peter Maurer

Education should aim at destroying free will so that after pupils are thus schooled they will be incapable throughout the rest of their lives…

— Johann Gottlieb Fichte

School disruption comes from those children who have given up hope.

— Albert Shanker

School divides life into two segments, which are increasingly of comparable length. As much as anything else, schooling implies custodial care for persons who…

— Ivan Illich

When you take the free will out of education, that turns it into schooling.

— John Taylor Gatto

Some people can't leave school because they're carrying it around like a snail and his shell. They live there, still. School became an ingrown,…

— Sandra Dodd

We know that many boys and girls leave school because of poverty, because they have to work. However, there are an important number of…

— Shakira

Too many children today are trapped in schools that don't work for them.

— Betsy DeVos

Kid's heads are filled with so many nonfacts that when they get out of school they're totally unprepared to do anything. They can't read,…

— Frank Zappa