Coercion Quote by Noam Chomsky

Question authority; think for yourself. Talk to people, do things unrelated to school - to come up with your own framework for living. The…

— Joichi Ito

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

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

— Hugh Jackman

Education must enable young people to effect what they have recognized to be right, despite hardships, despite dangers, despite inner skepticism, despite boredom, and…

— Kurt Hahn

Education as the exercise of domination stimulates the credulity of students, with the ideological intent (often not perceived by educators) of indoctrinating them to…

— Paulo Freire

Education must prepare students to be independent, self-reliant human beings. But education, at its best, also must help students go beyond their private interests,…

— Ernest L. Boyer

“The institution known as "school" isn't just a facility for doing classwork. It's essentially a microcosm of society, all of humanity put together in…

— Wataru Watari

“Schools were built to create an efficient transfer of knowledge from one generation to the next, and that purpose is no longer valid.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

I think schools, as they are now regulated, the hot-beds of vice and folly, and the knowledge of human nature supposedly attained there, merely…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

Education enables people and societies to be what they can be.

— Bill Richardson

Education must be a great equaliser in our society. It must be the tool to level the differences that our various social systems have…

— Rajiv Gandhi

Without undervaluing any other human agency, it may be safely affirmed that the Common School, improved and energized, as it can easily be, may…

— Horace Mann