Crap Quote by Paul Simon

“When I think back on all the crap I learned in high school, it's a wonder I can think at all”

— Paul Simon

“It was my assumption that skilled teachers spent their days imparting important and meaningful knowledge to eager students. I also believed, as many of…

— Brian Huskie

If I didn't finish high school, I would wonder about that part of my life.

— Devon Windsor

I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that…

— Helen Keller

I think schools generally do an effective and terribly damaging job of teaching children to be infantile, dependent, intellectually dishonest, passive and disrespectful to…

— Seymour Papert

There is nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school.

— George Bernard Shaw

I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built upon the supposition that every…

— Anne Sullivan Macy

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

It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a…

— Albert Einstein

Education itself is a putting off, a postponement; we are told to work hard to get good results. Why? So we can get a…

— Tom Hodgkinson

It is among the commonplaces of education that we often first cut off the living root and then try to replace its natural functions…

— Alice Duer Miller

Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds.

— Plato