Children Quote by Johan Huizinga

A long time ago, there was no such thing as school, and children spent their days learning a trade, a phrase which here means…

— Anonymous

[T]hroughout the ages to be educated meant to be unproductive.... our word "school" - and its equivalent in all European languages - derives from…

— Peter Drucker

“School is shortened, discipline relaxed, philosophies, histories, languages dropped, English and spelling gradually gradually neglected, finally almost completely ignored. Life is immediate, the job…

— Ray Bradbury

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

— Neil Postman

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

School is something that you learn - reading and writing. Education is what you learn from the family, from the environment, from the community.

— Bunker Roy

Through private investment capitalism kept raising the productivity of labor to new heights. Parents were able to earn enough so their offspring did not…

— Richard Ebeling

That's how I try to think of education - a school is a miniature society where children learn to function in a real world.

— Marva Collins

“Schooling is a manufacturing process whereby the raw material called curious boys is turned into products called obedient men.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I think schools, as they are now regulated, the hot-beds of vice and folly, and the knowledge of human nature supposedly attained there, merely…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

“Schools were built to create an efficient transfer of knowledge from one generation to the next, and that purpose is no longer valid.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

“Schooling as it presently exists, like science before and religion before that, is necessary to the continuation of our culture and to the spawning…

— Derrick Jensen