Education Quote by Ivan Illich

School prepares for the alienating institutionalization of life by teaching the need to be taught. Once this lesson is learned, people lose their incentive…

— Ivan Illich

“School prepares people for the alienating institutionalization of life, by teaching the necessity of being taught. Once this lesson is learned, people loose their…

— Ivan Illich

Schools teach the need to be taught.

— Ivan Illich

A school is a place through which you have to pass before entering life, but where the teaching proper does not prepare you for…

— Ernest Dimnet

Let us never lose sight of the fact that education is a preparation for life - and that preparing for life is far more…

— Ezra Taft Benson

We should see schools as safe arenas for experimenting with life, for discovering our talents... for taking responsibity for tasks and others people, for…

— Charles Handy

Education must prepare students to be independent, self-reliant human beings. But education, at its best, also must help students go beyond their private interests,…

— Ernest L. Boyer

“Were we to confront our creaturehood squarely, how would we propose to educate? The answer, I think is implied in the root of the…

— David Orr

Education begins with life.

— Benjamin Franklin

The school of life embodies a compulsory education that no man escapes.

— George Edward Woodberry

“institutionalised learning in schools and institutions can tend to undermine the desire to learn, at least in certain contexts and under certain forms.”

— Knud Illeris

An environment-based education movement--at all levels of education--will help students realize that school isn't supposed to be a polite form of incarceration, but a…

— Richard Louv