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 for the alienating institutionalization of life by teaching the need to be taught.

— Ivan Illich

“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

“It's important for nerds to realize, too, that school is not life. School is a strange, artificial thing, half sterile and half feral. It's…

— Paul Graham

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

By various agencies, unintentional and designed, a society transforms uninitiated and seemingly alien beings into robust trustees of its own resources and ideals. Education…

— John Dewey

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

“I also believe that the boundaries of school need to be made more porous and permeable, that we need to reduce the generational segregation…

— Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot

“In a universe where all life is in movement, where ever fact seen in perspective is totally engaging, we impose stillness on lively young…

— Marjorie Spock

“EDUCATION IS LIFE, A PERSON WITHOUT IT IS LIFELESS”

— Waley Jnr

“For education to happen, people must encounter worthwhile things outside their sphere of interest and brainpower.”

— Mark Bauerlein

“If we wish for our country to have an exponentially brighter future, one of the things we need to change is the popular perception…

— Joshua Neik