Quote by Studs Terkel

“Education inspires the educated to think for themselves. Schooled programs the schooled to work for others.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“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

“The purpose of school is for children to learn, not for them to feel good about themselves all the time.”

— Jean M. Twenge

“If we wish for our country to have an exponentially brighter future, one of the things we need to change is the popular perception…

— Joshua Neik

“It is a rare high school teacher who enjoys seeing their world being enormously improved upon by youths.”

— David James Duncan

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

— John Taylor Gatto

“Throughout our history, education has been at the heart of a bargain this nation makes with its citizens: If you work hard and take…

— Barack Obama

“One thing was clear: To give our kids the kind of education they deserved, we had to first agree that rigor mattered most of…

— Amanda Ripley

“It's a worthy, essential aim to seek 'youth from every quarter.' Institutions and individuals have a responsibility to work against centuries of structural inequality.…

— Kirstin Valdez Quade

“Although I had once pinned all my hopes on putting myself through school, believing I could thereby make something of myself, I now realized…

— Fumiko Kaneko

“I, as an anarch, renouncing any bond, any limitation of freedom, also reject compulsory education as nonsense. It was one of the greatest well-springs…

— Ernst Jünger

“Our grandfathers and great grandfathers18 built schools to train people to have a lifetime of productive labor as part of the industrialized economy. And…

— Warren Berger