Education Quote by Seth Godin

“It is time that we squarely face the fact that institutional schoolteaching is destructive to children.”

— John Taylor Gatto

“School should become the place where teachers, not just students, learn.”

— Vijay Dhameliya

“It is said that to this day that educational establishment still bears the scars of their activities.”

— William Horwood

“Our schools kept from us, for as long as they could, the dangerous, disruptive, upsetting knowledge of our own female nature.”

— Hilary Mantel

“Indeed, education is one of the institutions most deserving of disruption--and with the greatest opportunities to come of it.”

— Jeff Jarvis

“Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. The average citizen should be content with their humble role in life.”

— Anonymous

“I also believe that the boundaries of school need to be made more porous and permeable, that we need to reduce the generational segregation…

— Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot

“So it’s a mixed bag. Schools help prepare us for the modern workplace and perhaps for society at large. But in order to do…

— Kevin Simler

“This larger goal wouldn’t be the imitation of education in Universities today, glossed over and concealed by grades and degrees that give the appearance…

— Robert M. Pirsig

“we pay too little attention to the actual content of lessons: what gets taught and how it is taught. In the end, that is…

— Daisy Christodoulou

“Schools were built to create an efficient transfer of knowledge from one generation to the next, and that purpose is no longer valid.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

“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