Believe Quote by Petronius

We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Old fools are greater fools than young ones.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I remember that I was never able to get along at school. I was at the foot of the class.

— Thomas A. Edison

It's time to admit that public education operates like a planned economy, a bureaucratic system in which everybody's role is spelled out in advance…

— Albert Shanker

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

Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. The average American [should be] content with their humble role in life, because…

— William Torrey Harris

The things taught in schools & colleges are not an education but the means of education.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Education is a weapon the effect of which is determined by the hands which wield it, by who is to be struck down.

— Joseph Stalin

Growth and mastery come only to those who vigorously self-direct. Initiating, creating, doing, reflecting, freely associating, enjoying privacy-these are precisely what the structures of…

— John Taylor Gatto

They say that we are better educated than our parents' generation. What they mean is that we go to school longer. They are not…

— Douglas Yates

Nothing enrages me more than when people criticize my criticism of school by telling me that schools are not just places to learn maths…

— Seymour Papert

Our schools are, in a sense, factories, in which the raw products (children) are to be shaped and fashioned into products to meet the…

— Ellwood Patterson Cubberley