Capacity Quote by Seymour Papert

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

Schools are really bad now. Schools are not only bad in reading, writing and arithmetic, they're worse in cultural aspects, like in music and…

— John Kricfalusi

I think there's so much negative influence on children in school settings. It becomes learning by rote to pass a test. It's not contextualized.

— Esperanza Spalding

“Yes, I know, because schools are cruel, illogical, and unfair. But the thing is, life is cruel, illogical, and unfair. That is why the…

— R. A. Spratt

I see it as this: I send my kids to school not only to learn how to read and write and do math, but…

— Megyn Kelly

“It is not possible to spend any prolonged period visiting public school classrooms without being appalled by the mutilation visible everywhere—mutilation of spontaneity, of…

— John Holt

The motives of these parents vary, many parents don't like the curriculum being taught to their kids, or are wary of the threat of…

— Ernest Istook

I don't know if you've been in any inner-city schools, but it's pretty demoralizing. The kids come to class bright-eyed, enthusiastic - entering first…

— William Julius Wilson

I don't like that sort of school... where the bright childish imagination is utterly discouraged... where I have never seen among the pupils, whether…

— Charles Dickens

It's not fair that kids feel like they have to be naturally gifted at math and science, but with , it's often pushed to…

— Peyton List

Keeping our kids out of classrooms is damaging.

— Gavin Williamson

Is it too much to expect from the schools that they train their students not only to interpret but to criticize; that is, to…

— Anonymous