Against Quote by Ivan Illich

We have a large underclass in Britain, and a fairly low standard of education. Our best universities are extremely good, but a very significant…

— Nigel Short

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

— Anonymous

Schools are compulsory for about ten years of a person's life. They are, perhaps, the only compulsory institutions for all citizens, although those with…

— Marie Brennan

Starting from the primary schools, there must be compulsory 'Cosmos' classes throughout the education period. If a man thinks about and understands the universe,…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

“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

“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

I think one of the problems [with raising intelligent children] is compulsory schooling...and that children are sitting there and they are taught and told…

— Marilyn vos Savant

Schools that are freely accessible allow the organization of certain specific learning tasks which a person might propose to himself. Schools, when they are…

— Ivan Illich

“The intrinsic nature of the power authorized was so little realized that this was called "free education," the most absolute contradiction of facts by…

— Isabel Paterson

We have been taught (that is, schooled) in this country to think of 'success' as synonymous with, or at least dependent upon, 'schooling,' but…

— John Taylor Gatto

I studied with a blind teacher from about 5 until I was 16, at two different schools. From the age of 12 until 16,…

— George Shearing

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

— P. J. O'Rourke