Free Spirits Quote by Ta-Nehisi Coates

The wave of punitiveness that washed over the United States with the rise of the drug war and the get tough movement really flooded…

— Michelle Alexander

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

— Hilary Mantel

“How can a school prepare you for murderers and mad-men?' Taro asked. 'Friends who would betray you to your death. People in authority who…

— Moira J. Moore

“When I left high school with my diploma, it felt like I was holding a key that would unlock the door to a better…

— Brian Celio

“To question, to ponder, and to learn. Education was my drug of choice—classrooms, books, lectures, pushing myself to understand.”

— Elizabeth J. Church

“But why not? He deserved it. It took years to take control of this school—to oust the resisters, to implant the sympathizers, to blind…

— Frank Peretti

“Education is the people's only defense against leaders who would do them harm.”

— Jorge Mario B

“I had lone, schooled myself to be oblivious to pain. I had neither doubts nor fears. All the content of my mind seemed to…

— Jack London

“And I had gone along with such a crooked piece of logic. Why? Did either of us believe that teaching children might be easier…

— Robin Hobb

“Free schools were an invention of the Devil or the Yankees, which amounted to practically the same thing.”

— Irvin S. Cobb

“For their most innocent words were acts of violence to which we of the campus were hypersensitive though we endured them not.”

— Ralph Ellison

“Education is my drug of choice.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo