Built Quote by Ivan Illich

Schooling is what happens inside the wall of the school, some of which is educational. Education happens everywhere, and it happens from the moment…

— Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot

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

Schools are not about enabling children to have a living but about children being able to have a life.

— Elliot W. Eisner

But what is now encompassed by the one word (“school”) are two very different kinds of institutions that, in function, finance and intention, serve…

— Jonathan Kozol

Schools have not necessarily much to do with education...they are mainly institutions of control where certain basic habits must be inculcated in the young.…

— Winston Churchill

Custodial education does not have as its objective the education of youth but rather social control over them. It suppresses rather than stimulates their…

— John Conyers

At its best, schooling can be about how to make a life, which is quite different from how to make a living.

— Neil Postman

The idea of school choice is spreading like wildfire around the country, because it's the one education reform that puts real choices and real…

— Clint Bolick

Since growth is the characteristic of life, education is all one with growing; it has no end beyond itself. The criterion of the value…

— John Dewey

The process of schooling does not give birth to human beings - as education should but never will so long as it springs from…

— Derrick Jensen

True education must correspond to the surrounding circumstances or it is not a healthy growth.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Some people can't leave school because they're carrying it around like a snail and his shell. They live there, still. School became an ingrown,…

— Sandra Dodd