Age Quote by Grace Abbott

Through private investment capitalism kept raising the productivity of labor to new heights. Parents were able to earn enough so their offspring did not…

— Richard Ebeling

“The belief that young people are incapable of making reasonable decisions is a cornerstone of our system of compulsory, closely monitored education.”

— Peter O. Gray

“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

Preventing children from going to school, and preventing teachers from doing their jobs, seems to be not just undemocratic but intolerable.

— Najat Vallaud-Belkacem

Youth was so mercilessly hard in its decisions; it had its own unyielding standards and had not yet learned enough to know that time…

— Winston Graham

A long time ago, there was no such thing as school, and children spent their days learning a trade, a phrase which here means…

— Anonymous

Education is the constraining and directing of youth towards that right reason, which the law affirms, and which the experience of the best of…

— Plato

As skills and energy became more of a demand, people who didn't have skills just got left behind, got shuttled to the side. Education…

— Julian Bond

School reform is not enough. The notion of schooling itself must be challenged.

— John Taylor Gatto

“Our current education system was created in the late 1800s and early 1900s, and was modeled after the new factories of the industrial revolution.…

— Robert Epstein

Education must enable young people to effect what they have recognized to be right, despite hardships, despite dangers, despite inner skepticism, despite boredom, and…

— Kurt Hahn

Most arguments for instituting or raising a minimum wage are based on fairness and redistribution. Even if workers are getting a competitive wage, many…

— Christina Romer