Children Quote by John Holt Download Open image “To a very great degree, school is a place where children learn to be stupid.” — John Holt ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Children Education School
All the other children at my school are stupid. Except I'm not meant to call them stupid, even though this is what they are. — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
Strange as it may seem, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it. — Stephen Vizinczey Copy Share Image
Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Being stupid doesn't really mean you're stupid, sometimes it's the key to live your life in a smart way. — Riza Tumulak Copy Share Image
“People are all born ignorant but they are not born stupid. Much of the stupidity we see today is induced by our educational system,… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
My definition of stupid is wasting your opportunity to be yourself because I think everybody has a uniqueness and everybody's good at something. — Pink Copy Share
“If you're wondering why our children are so stupid now a days look no further than the American educational system. Designed to lower our… — Kenneth G. Ortiz Copy Share Image
The definition of being stupid: seeing the truth, knowing the truth, and choosing to still believe the lies. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“When children are very young, they have natural curiosities about the world and explore them, trying diligently to figure out what is real. As… — John Holt Copy Share Image
The idea of painless, nonthreatening coercion is an illusion. Fear is the inseparable companion of coercion, and its inescapable consequence. If you think it… — John Holt Copy Share Image
“Fear, boredom, and resistance--they all go to make what we call stupid children.” — John Holt Copy Share Image
Schools assume that children are not interested in learning and are not much good at it, that they will not learn unless made to,… — John Holt Copy Share Image
“John, if you ever get a family, there’s one thing you should know. No matter how well you get along with your children when… — John Holt Copy Share Image
It is hard not to feel that there must be something very wrong with much of what we do in school, if we feel… — John Holt Copy Share Image
“Why do they do this? Because it gives them a license to act like tyrants and to feel like saints. “Do what I tell… — John Holt Copy Share Image
Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead,… — John Holt Copy Share Image
“Leaders are not, as we are often led to think, people who go along with huge crowds following them. Leaders are people who go… — John Holt Copy Share Image
I am certain that children always know more than they are able to tell, and that makes the big difference between them and adults,… — Jacques Lusseyran Copy Share Image
I believe in freedom to do what you want if you aren't hurting others, but pictures of obese protesters giving their children big gulps. — Philip DeFranco Copy Share Image
If the audience likes your work, if they like you, they don't think whether you are married or have children or not. I made… — Dimple Kapadia Copy Share Image
It doesnt seem to me strange that children should like the macabre, the sensational, and the forbidden. — Anthony Hecht Copy Share Image
Gratitude isn't just a feeling, it's an action. Expressing gratitude by writing in a journal, taking a photo, or shooting a video creates a… — Janice Kaplan Copy Share Image
My embarrassing confession is that my father is a 'Camelot: The Musical' obsessive. So as a child, when we were going to visit relatives… — Chris Chibnall Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
My school was one of the most beautiful places a child can grow up in. You are surrounded by nature - cats, dogs, birds… — Amala Akkineni Copy Share Image
A lesser complaint: hair extensions. There are moments on 'All My Children' when half the women actors, young and old, seem to be afflicted… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
As a child, I had a lot of older gay men taking care of me. There's a trust there. I feel like little girls… — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
