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As damaging as the obsessive emphasis on testing often proves to be for kids in general, I believe that the effects are still more…

— Jonathan Kozol

In most schools, we measure children on what they know. By and large, they have to memorize the content of whatever test is coming…

— Sugata Mitra

I think schools generally do an effective and terribly damaging job of teaching children to be infantile, dependent, intellectually dishonest, passive and disrespectful to…

— Seymour Papert

I think modern educational theorists are inclined to attach too much importance to the negative virtue of not interfering with children, and too little…

— Bertrand Russell

Nothing enrages me more than when people criticize my criticism of school by telling me that schools are not just places to learn maths…

— Seymour Papert

Many children struggle in schools... because the way they are being taught is incompatible with the way they learn.

— Peter Senge

I think there's too much emphasis placed on learning things by rote that you don't really care about. So what happens to students in…

— Jack Canfield

Keeping our kids out of classrooms is damaging.

— Gavin Williamson

“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

The wrong things are predominantly stressed in the schools - things remote from the student's experience and need.

— Anonymous

What happens on the ground is that schools have been required to follow a literacy matrix - yes, some schools junked it - but…

— Michael Rosen

“School is not a brand holding a monopoly on learning, and we need to stop feeding it as such. It’s time to open our…

— Ellen Rowland