19th century Quote by Marshall McLuhan

• As society rapidly changes, individuals will have to be able to function comfortably in a world that is always in flux. Knowledge will…

— John Taylor Gatto

“The compartmentalization of knowledge, which is one of the characteristics of the mental and intellectual scene of the modern world, is not only reflected…

— Seyyed Hossein Nasr

Education is this funny thing. You deal for several years with organized information, and then you go out into the world and you never…

— Peter Schjeldahl

“He was appalled by the examination system, when it was explained to him; he could not imagine a greater deterrent to the natural wish…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“Once teachers can forget how a class should be they can discover each year what it must be like with that specific class at…

— Herbert R. Kohl

Imagine a school with children that can read or write, but with teachers who cannot, and you have a metaphor of the Information Age…

— Peter Cochrane

Of all forms of mental activity, the most difficult to induce even in the minds of the young, who may be presumed not to…

— Arthur Koestler

So while it is true that children are exposed to more information and a greater variety of experiences than were children of the past,…

— David Elkind

Out of the nursery into the college and back into the nursery; there’s your intellectual pattern for the past five centuries or more.

— Ray Bradbury

One seeks to equip the child with deeper, more gripping, and subtler ways of knowing the world and himself.

— Anonymous

“Learning and education have frequently degenerated into the systematic accumulation of facts and information.”

— Stephen Batchelor

In the case of various kinds of knowledge, we find that what in former days occupied the energies of men of mature mental ability…

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel