Checks Quote by Martin Luther

“In a universe where all life is in movement, where ever fact seen in perspective is totally engaging, we impose stillness on lively young…

— Marjorie Spock

Many schools today are sacrificing social studies, the arts and physical education so children can cover basic subjects like math, English and science.

— Geoffrey Canada

“The purpose of school is for children to learn, not for them to feel good about themselves all the time.”

— Jean M. Twenge

The great purpose of school can be realized better in dark, airless, ugly places ... It is to master the physical self, to transcend…

— William Torrey Harris

We should see schools as safe arenas for experimenting with life, for discovering our talents... for taking responsibity for tasks and others people, for…

— Charles Handy

“Our schools are no closer in connecting the education of children to their development as human beings: each child as an individual with a…

— Paula Polk Lillard

“wherever a school is actually teaching boys and girls to do something that the community wants, it is seldom that that school fails to…

— Booker T. Washington

Accurate scholarship can unearth the whole offence from luther untill noe that has driven a culture mad. From what occured at linz what huge…

— W. H. Auden

What a misfortune it is that we should thus be compelled to let our boys schooling interfere with their education!

— Grant Allen

Avoid compulsion and let early education be a matter of amusement. Young children learn by games; compulsory education cannot remain in the soul.

— Plato

How fortunate for civilization, that Beethoven, Michelangelo, Galileo and Faraday were not required by law to attend schools where their total personalities would have…

— Joel Henry Hildebrand

“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