Bed Quote by Mary Wollstonecraft

Schools are not intended to moralize a wicked world, but to impart knowledge and develop intelligence, with only two social aims in mind: prepare…

— Jacques Barzun

Far from creating independent thinkers, schools have always, throughout history, played an institutional role in a system of control and coercion. And once you…

— Noam Chomsky

The premise upon which mass compulsion schooling is based is dead wrong. It tries to shoehorn every style, culture, and personality into one ugly…

— John Taylor Gatto

I believe that school makes complete fools of our young men, because they see and hear nothing of ordinary life there.

— Petronius

School is supposed to civilise us, to tame our wilder instincts and teach us how to be more sensible, more knowledgeable, and cleverer.

— Victoria Coren Mitchell

In a world that has so largely engaged in a mad and often brutally harsh race for material gain by means of ruthless competition,…

— John Dewey

Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.

— Henry Fielding

“institutionalised learning in schools and institutions can tend to undermine the desire to learn, at least in certain contexts and under certain forms.”

— Knud Illeris

“Schools were built to create an efficient transfer of knowledge from one generation to the next, and that purpose is no longer valid.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

Our schools must be places where all are respected and the values of tolerance and peacemaking are taught and nurtured.

— Blase J. Cupich

“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

Historically, much of the motivation for public schooling has been to stifle variety and institute social control.

— Hugh Jackman