Accusation Quote by John Taylor Gatto

“One might wonder how on earth learning came to be seen primarily a result of teaching. Until quite recently, the world’s great teachers were…

— Russell L. Ackoff

“Socrates would teach his pupils by asking them intelligent and probing questions. By using their critical thinking skills and problem-solving abilities, they could discover…

— Susan C. Young

Socrates had no system to teach. Throughout, his philosophy was a spiritual exercise, an invitation to a new way of life, active reflection, and…

— Pierre Hadot

Socrates gave no diplomas or degrees, and would have subjected any disciple who demanded one to a disconcerting catechism on the nature of true…

— G. M. Trevelyan

Socrates asks him the crucial question about education, and that is, If you study with this fellow, what will he make of you?

— Leroy S Rouner

“This classmate told me that Plato drove this idea home in his dialogue Euthydemus , in which Socrates puts down the Sophists, claiming that…

— Daniel Klein

The damage of teaching: the constant contact with the undeveloped.

— Theodore Roethke

“The fact that so many young men and women enter the teaching profession shows that there are still some people willing to scrape along…

— Harold Rabinowitz

“We need both Socrates and Aristotle in the search for knowledge, but in education today there is too much Aristotle and too little Socrates.”

— Gregory J.E. Rawlins

We should realize that, if [Socrates] demanded that the wisest men should rule, he clearly stressed that he did not mean the learned men;…

— Anonymous

“If someone teaches only what his superior Man predetermines and orders him to teach, without himself being absolutely convinced of the Meaningfulness and Usefulness…

— Sino Melo

“A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state...The most vindictive resentment may be expected from the pedagogic profession for…

— Isabel Paterson