Boots Quote by John Taylor Gatto

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

Nothing has so exposed men of learning to contempt and ridicule as their ignorance of things which are known to all but themselves. Those…

— Samuel Johnson

We are, all of us, creatures of habit, and when the seeeming necessity for schooling ourselves in new ways ceases to exist, we fall…

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

Education as the exercise of domination stimulates the credulity of students, with the ideological intent (often not perceived by educators) of indoctrinating them to…

— Paulo Freire

The process of schooling does not give birth to human beings - as education should but never will so long as it springs from…

— Derrick Jensen

Kathleen Wynne and her band of radical-left cronies think they have a handle on what constitutes human identity and also what should constitute human…

— Jordan Peterson

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Historically, much of the motivation for public schooling has been to stifle variety and institute social control.

— Hugh Jackman

Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.

— Plato

The whole realm of thought and opinion is utterly unsuited to public control; it ought to be as free, and as spontaneous as is…

— Bertrand Russell

In a world that has so largely engaged in a mad and often brutally harsh race for material gain by means of ruthless competition,…

— John Dewey

In education, as in religion and love, compulsion thwarts the purpose for which it is employed.

— John Lancaster Spalding