Desire to learn Quote by Knud Illeris

“Relatedly, an increasingly horizontal structure of learning puts pressure on how learning institutions-schools,”

— Cathy N. Davidson

“School prepares people for the alienating institutionalization of life, by teaching the necessity of being taught. Once this lesson is learned, people loose their…

— Ivan Illich

“It is time that we squarely face the fact that institutional schoolteaching is destructive to children.”

— John Taylor Gatto

“Two seemingly antagonistic forces, equally deleterious in their actions and ultimately combining to produce their results, are at present ruling over our educational institutions,…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

School is an institution built on the axiom that learning is the result of teaching. And institutional wisdom continues to accept this axiom, despite…

— Ivan Illich

Schools attempt to take credit for what occurs naturally, and blame others for the negative consequences of institutionalization.

— Denise Richards

“Schools were built to create an efficient transfer of knowledge from one generation to the next, and that purpose is no longer valid.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

“we pay too little attention to the actual content of lessons: what gets taught and how it is taught. In the end, that is…

— Daisy Christodoulou

“So it’s a mixed bag. Schools help prepare us for the modern workplace and perhaps for society at large. But in order to do…

— Kevin Simler

“If we wish for our country to have an exponentially brighter future, one of the things we need to change is the popular perception…

— Joshua Neik

Too often we see that teachers and educational administrators feel threatened by self-organized learning. They, therefore, think it is not learning at all.

— Sugata Mitra

How strange it seems that education, in practice, so often means suppression: that instead of leading the mind outward to the light of day…

— Louis Sullivan