Conformity Quote by Herbert Read

The sentiments of an adult are compounded of a kernel of instinct surrounded by a vast husk of education.

— Bertrand Russell

“The child tends to be stripped of all social influences but those of the market place, all sense of place, function and class is…

— Jeremy Seabrook

The refusal to belong to any school of thought, the repudiation of the adequacy of any body of beliefs whatever, and especially of systems,…

— Walter Kaufmann

“[The]...feeling for what one should want, in contrast with actual desire, is stronger in the unthinking than in those sophisticated by education. It is…

— Frank H. Knight

How strange it seems that education, in practice, so often means suppression: that instead of leading the mind outward to the light of day…

— Louis Sullivan

The sentiments of an adult are compounded of a kernal of instinct surrounded by a vast husk of education.

— Bertrand Russell

When I was in college, I remember fearing that the dreary grind of adulthood would feature infinitely more existential dread than frat parties had,…

— John Green

“However, there have always been “society pedagogues”, less outstanding but more numerous, who have become fascinated by their own great ideas, which might, sometimes,…

— Andrzej Lobaczewski

[University students] hated the hypocrisy of adult society, the rigidity of its political institutions, the impersonality of its bureaucracies. They sought to create a…

— Muriel Beadle

Rather than being taught to accept ourselves, we were trained to make ourselves socially acceptable. And whenever we fail, we suffer inside.

— George Robinson

“Human history is the ancient story of the umbilical conflict between a lone individual versus a cabalistic society. A love-hate relationship defines our personal…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

From these prejudices there arises conflict, transient joys and suffering. But we are unconscious of this, unconscious that we are slaves to certain forms…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti