Compulsory Quote by George Edward Woodberry

Education: free and compulsory - what a way to learn logic!

— Frank Van Dun

Compulsory education... It is a painful, continual, and difficult work; to be done by kindness, by watching, by warning, by precept, and by praise,…

— John Ruskin

The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Continued adherence to a policy of compulsory education is utterly incompatible with efforts to establish lasting peace.

— Ludwig von Mises

America's public schools have served their purpose. Free and compulsory education was good for a somewhat unpromising young nation.

— P. J. O'Rourke

Those who first introduced compulsory education into American life knew exactly why children should go to school and learn to read: to save their…

— Dorothy H Cohen

Learning is not compulsory; it's voluntary... But to survive, we must learn.

— W. Edwards Deming

“I, as an anarch, renouncing any bond, any limitation of freedom, also reject compulsory education as nonsense. It was one of the greatest well-springs…

— Ernst Jünger

Who besides a degraded rabble would voluntarily present itself to be graded and classified like meat? No wonder school is compulsory.

— John Taylor Gatto

By preventing a free market in education, a handful of social engineers - backed by the industries that profit from compulsory schooling: teacher colleges,…

— Anonymous

Avoid compulsion and let early education be a matter of amusement. Young children learn by games; compulsory education cannot remain in the soul.

— Plato

“Valda said that if you change your residence every six months you can legally free your children from compulsory education.”

— John Cage

“There can be no greater stretch of arbitrary power than to seize children from their parents, teach them whatever the authorities decree they shall…

— Isabel Paterson

“I, as an anarch, renouncing any bond, any limitation of freedom, also reject compulsory education as nonsense. It was one of the greatest well-springs…

— Ernst Jünger

It is better to tolerate the rare instance of a parent refusing to let his child be educated, than to shock the common feelings…

— Thomas Jefferson