Accusation Quote by Jules Henry

“Were we to confront our creaturehood squarely, how would we propose to educate? The answer, I think is implied in the root of the…

— David Orr

“Education is the reason why we behave like human beings. We are hardly born human. We are born ridiculous, malodorous animals. We become human.…

— Will Durant

We've bought into the idea that education is about training and "success," defined monetarily, rather than learning to think critically and challenge. We should…

— Chris Hedges

The function of education, therefore, is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. But education which stops with efficiency may prove…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Education is not the taming or domestication of the soul's raw passions - not suppressing them or excising them, which would deprive the soul…

— Allan Bloom

Education enables people and societies to be what they can be.

— Bill Richardson

It seems to me that education has a two-fold function to perform in the life of man and in society: the one is utility…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Civilization is the mastery of violence, the triumph, constantly challenged, over the aggressive nature of the primate. For primates we have been and primates…

— Muriel Barbery

What is education? Properly speaking, there is no such thing as education. Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Education is the point at which we decide whether we love our children enough not to expel them from our worldand leave them to…

— Anonymous

Education is not sermonizing to children against their instincts and pleasures, but providing a natural continuity between what they feel and what they can…

— Allan Bloom

“A primary purpose of school - and this is true for our culture's science and religion as well - is to lead us away…

— Derrick Jensen