Community Quote by Edsger W. Dijkstra

“Education has a social specificity of its own that centres on the conditions for the acquisition of knowledge that can never be reduced to…

— Michael F.D. Young

Education should not be about building more schools and maintaining a system that dates back to the Industrial Revolution. We can achieve so much…

— Naveen Jain

“Society may be imagined so uniform that one education shall be suitable for all its members; we have not a society of that kind,…

— Matthew Arnold

“I am up against the system, the whole method & approach of a system of education which makes us morons, cultural morons, but efficient…

— R K Narayan

In their capacity as a tool, computers will be but a ripple on the surface of our culture. In their capacity as intellectual challenge,…

— Edsger Dijkstra

“The prescribed mode of thinking that is generated by our educational systems is not conducive to the sort of thinking that new generations should…

— Nora Bateson

“Kids who are good at traditional school—repeating rote concepts and facts on a test—can fall apart in a situation where that isn’t enough. Programming…

— Ketil Moland Olsen

Standardization of our educational systems is apt to stamp out individualism and defeat the very ends of education by leveling the product down rather…

— Harvey Cushing

Education may well be, as of right, the instrument whereby every individual, in a society like our own, can gain access to any kind…

— Michel Foucault

I say further that our system of education should be unsectarian.

— Edmund Barton

“Education is like pruning ; it wrecks the natural growth of the tree in favour of a form that is useful to commercial society”

— Tom Hodgkinson

“In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something less,…

— Lee Iacocca