Century Quote by Thomas Sowell

“A primary purpose of school - and this is true for our culture's science and religion as well - is to lead us away…

— Derrick Jensen

No one has yet invented a system of education that is capable of ruining everyone.

— Otto E. Neugebauer

If education is beaten by training, civilization dies.

— C. S. Lewis

The civilization, so often vaunted by the learned exponents of arts and sciences, will, if allowed to overleap the bounds of moderation, bring great…

— Bahá'u'lláh

This education has reduced us to a nation of morons; we were strangers to our own culture and camp followers of another culture, feeding…

— R.K. Narayan

Ours may become the first civilization destroyed, not by the power of our enemies, but by the ignorance of our teachers and the dangerous…

— Thomas Sowell

Education must be taken out of the hands of rich illiterates, third rate politicians, and put where it belongs: in the care of scholars.…

— Katherine Anne Porter

I thought that culture and education are the shield. An educated person cannot do certain things and, and be educated, you cannot, and there…

— Elie Wiesel

Perhaps this is the root of all evil, that gardeners are not put in charge of our schools.

— Helen DeWitt

Technology will eventually destroy the way schools are run now.

— Daniel Greenberg

Likewise, education can direct people toward good or evil ends. When education is based on a fundamentally distorted worldview, the results are horrific.

— Daisaku Ikeda

I don’t think we’ll get rid of schools any time soon, certainly not in my lifetime, but if we’re going to change what’s rapidly…

— John Taylor Gatto