America Quote by Timothy Noah

The whole idea of a public education was to train young people about how our system of government works, so they could be good…

— Sandra Day O'Connor

The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the…

— H. L. Mencken

The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the…

— Anonymous

“The most erroneous assumption is to the effect that the aim of public education is to fill the young of the species with knowledge…

— H.L. Mencken

“Education is like pruning ; it wrecks the natural growth of the tree in favour of a form that is useful to commercial society”

— Tom Hodgkinson

[The] erroneous assumption is to the effect that the aim of public education is to fill the young of the species with knowledge and…

— H. L. Mencken

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

— Will Durant

In a government institution, there is only one area in which problems are taken seriously, and that is the political. Many of the strange…

— Richard Mitchell

“The public education system did not promote the enlightenment of the individual, but rather suppressed critical thought and neurodiversity. It produced preformatted, standardized, and…

— Rajinder Jhol

“...the establishment of a universal system of public education inevitably changed the relations of education to the state. It is this above all else…

— Christopher Henry Dawson

Public education was not founded to give society what it wants. Quite the opposite.

— May Sarton

Education is a progressive discovery of your own ignorance.

— Will Durant