Citizens Quote by Marie Brennan

Schools have not necessarily much to do with education...they are mainly institutions of control where certain basic habits must be inculcated in the young.…

— Winston Churchill

America's public schools have served their purpose. Free and compulsory education was good for a somewhat unpromising young nation.

— P. J. O'Rourke

There are millions of children today who don't attend school. However, education is the only way to get ahead in this country.

— Azim Premji

School reform is not enough. The notion of schooling itself must be challenged.

— John Taylor Gatto

“Unless we have the wealth to pay for private education, we are compelled by law to go to public school—and to the public school…

— Jonathan Kozol

School divides life into two segments, which are increasingly of comparable length. As much as anything else, schooling implies custodial care for persons who…

— Ivan Illich

Compulsory education... It is a painful, continual, and difficult work; to be done by kindness, by watching, by warning, by precept, and by praise,…

— John Ruskin

The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Do we really need school? I don't mean education, just forced schooling: six classes a day, five days a week, nine months a year,…

— John Taylor Gatto

A school is no school if there aint no student to attend the school!

— Zachary Hyde

I saw first-hand that all schools are not created equal, and the students shouldn't have to go without all of the materials that they…

— Charles Best

Schools that are freely accessible allow the organization of certain specific learning tasks which a person might propose to himself. Schools, when they are…

— Ivan Illich