Absurd Quote by R. D. Laing

If we taught babies to talk as most skills are taught in school, they would memorize lists of sounds in a predetermined order and…

— Linda Darling-Hammond

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

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

— Plato

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

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

When people accept futility and the absurd as normal, the culture is decadent.

— Jacques Barzun

“There's an ingrained distrust in our society of highly intelligent, highly trained, highly competent persons. One need only look at the last presidential election…

— John Brunner

It is not so much in buying pictures as in being pictures, that you can encourage a noble school. The best patronage of art…

— John Ruskin

A modern teacher educates children to value their emotions.

— Haim Ginott

I'm working with UNESCO on a project called 'Thirst,' which educates children all over China and promotes awareness to the fact that 300 million…

— Joyce Giraud

I didn't really fit with other kids. I had problems in school all my life and problems with authority. But my parents never did…

— Julie Delpy

I think sleeping was my problem in school. If school had started at 4:00 in the afternoon, I'd be a college graduate today.

— George Foreman