Create Quote by Ivan Illich

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

— P. J. O'Rourke

We need schools to force kids to learn things they have no use for.

— Daniel Quinn

[The] type of education now prevailing all over the world is directed against human freedom. State-controlled education ... deprives people of their free choice,…

— Muammar al-Gaddafi

“Schools were built to create an efficient transfer of knowledge from one generation to the next, and that purpose is no longer valid. School…

— Grant Lichtman

“Education equals freedom”

— Irene DelRosso

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

Education is freedom.

— Paulo Freire

We must not think of learning as only what happens in schools. It is an extended part of life. The most readily available resource…

— David McCullough

As somebody who visits countless schools, I see firsthand the dire situation our educational system faces.

— Jarrett J. Krosoczka

Schools are designed on the assumption that there is a secret to everything in life; that the quality of life depends upon knowing that…

— Ivan Illich

The classroom, with all its limitations, remains a location of possibility. In that field of possibility we have the opportunity to labor for freedom,…

— Bell Hooks

After forty years of intensive research on school learning in the United States as well as abroad, my major conclusion is: What any person…

— Benjamin Bloom