Conformity Quote by Frank Zappa

Schools train people to be ignorant, with style. They give you the equipment that you need to be a functional ignoramus. American schools* do…

— Frank Zappa

As long as you're just smart enough to do a job and just dumb enough to swallow what they feed you, you're gonna be…

— Frank Zappa

Innovators and creative geniuses cannot be reared in schools. They are precisely the men who defy what the school has taught them.

— Ludwig von Mises

Public schools are not simply being corporatized, they are also subjected increasingly to a militarizing logic that disciplines the bodies of young people, especially…

— Henry Giroux

“It is my belief that structured formal schooling crushes the creativity in our young people. They need to be given time, space and materials…

— Tina Razzell

“The principle of my school is quite different. In the other schools, techniques are displayed like merchandise adorned with colors and flowers, so they…

— Miyamoto Musashi

“Other countries whose educational systems achieve more than ours often do so in part by attempting less. While school children in Japan are learning…

— Thomas Sowell

“Schools kill time and creativity. Find ways to workaround these limitations”

— Gossy Ukanwoke

“One of the things that school is for is to teach our children to understand and relish the idea of intellectualism, to develop into…

— Seth Godin

“... schools in many industrialized nations were not, for the most part, designed to produce innovative thinkers or questioners -- their primary purpose was…

— Warren Berger

One may have broad or narrow talents, but only education renders them useful. Schools set up to train people will develop the intelligence of…

— Sun Yat-sen

All kids, I think, are creative, but they get it pounded out of them in school.

— Buffy Sainte-Marie