Education Quote by Victoria Coren Mitchell

Schools are not intended to moralize a wicked world, but to impart knowledge and develop intelligence, with only two social aims in mind: prepare…

— Jacques Barzun

The very essence of school is elitism. Schools exist to teach, to test, to rank hierarchically to promote the idea that knowing and understanding…

— William A. Henry III

“School is shortened, discipline relaxed, philosophies, histories, languages dropped, English and spelling gradually gradually neglected, finally almost completely ignored. Life is immediate, the job…

— Ray Bradbury

“I've noticed a fascinating phenomenon in my thirty years of teaching: schools and schooling are increasingly irrelevant to the great enterprises of the planet.…

— John Taylor Gatto

Children are sent to school to be civilized, to learn to be part of the social enterprise.

— Robert Fulghum

Education, which should be helping youth to understand and adapt to their revolutionary new environments, is instead being used merely as an instrument of…

— Marshall McLuhan

Far from creating independent thinkers, schools have always, throughout history, played an institutional role in a system of control and coercion. And once you…

— Noam Chomsky

Education cannot be neutral. It is either positive or negative; either it enriches or it impoverishes; either it enables a person to grow or…

— Pope Francis

“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

What matters school? We can go to school to-morrow. Whether we have a lesson more or a lesson less, we shall always remain the…

— Carlo Collodi

“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

“Schools were built to create an efficient transfer of knowledge from one generation to the next, and that purpose is no longer valid. School…

— Grant Lichtman