Schooled Quotes:

Rather than being taught to ask ourselves who we are, we are schooled to ask others. We are, in effect, trained to listen to others’ versions of ourselves.

- Julia Cameron

source: Julia Cameron (2013). “The Vein of Gold: A Journey to Your Creative Heart”, p.26, Souvenir Press

topic: Who We Are, Taught, Schooled

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

- Henry David Thoreau

topic: Success, Music, Wisdom, Individual Differences, Conformist

Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.

- John Lubbock

source: "The Use of Life" by John Lubbock, (Ch. IV), 1894.

topic: Education, Teacher, Nature, Inspirational Educational, Spiritual Nature

In the year 2000 an illiterate person will not be someone who can't read or write, but someone who is not able to learn, unlearn and learn again.

- Alvin Toffler

topic: Writing, Learning, Years, Schooled, Illiterate Person

If we taught babies to talk as most skills are taught in school, they would memorize lists of sounds in a predetermined order and practice them alone in a closet.

- Linda Darling-Hammond

source: Linda Darling-Hammond, Nicole Ramos-Beban, Rebecca Padnos Altamirano, Maria E. Hyler (2016). “Be the Change: Reinventing School for Student Success”, p.114, Teachers College Press

topic: Baby, Learning, School, Memorizing, Children Learning

The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.

- Robert M. Hutchins

topic: Life, Education, Teacher, Inspirational Education, Inspirational School

Growth and mastery come only to those who vigorously self-direct. Initiating, creating, doing, reflecting, freely associating, enjoying privacy-these are precisely what the structures of schooling are set up to prevent, on one pretext or another.

- John Taylor Gatto

topic: School, Self, Creating, Schooling, Schooled

Since every effort in our educational life seems to be directed toward making of the child a being foreign to itself, it must of necessity produce individuals foreign to one another, and in everlasting antagonism with each other.

- Emma Goldman

topic: Life, Education, Children, Antagonism, Schooled

I am entirely certain that twenty years from now we will look back at education as it is practiced in most schools today and wonder that we could have tolerated anything so primitive.

- John W. Gardner

topic: Education, School, Years, Public Education, Education Today

Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.

- John W. Gardner

topic: Education, Flower, Teaching, Special Education, Inspirational Teacher

My schooling not only failed to teach me what it professed to be teaching, but prevented me from being educated to an extent which infuriates me when I think of all I might have learned at home by myself.

- George Bernard Shaw

topic: Teaching, Home, Learning, Self Education, Education And Freedom

Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.

- Anne Sullivan Macy

topic: Motivational, Family, Success, Schooled

Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.

- Christopher Morley

source: Christopher Morley (2013). “The Haunted Bookshop”, p.294, Melville House

topic: Wisdom, Silly, Reading, Independent Thought, Conformist

I hated school. Even to this day, when I see a school bus it's just depressing to me. The poor little kids.

- Dolly Parton

topic: Depressing, School, Kids, School Bus, Schooled

Education is a weapon the effect of which is determined by the hands which wield it, by who is to be struck down.

- Joseph Stalin

source: "H. G. Wells : 'It seems to me that I am more to the Left than you, Mr Stalin'". Interview with H. G. Wells, www.newstatesman.com. October 27, 1934.

topic: Education, School, Reality, Limiting Government, Education And Freedom

Education has for its object the formation of character. To curb restive propensities, to awaken dormant sentiments, to strengthen the perceptions, and cultivate the tastes, to encourage this feeling and repress that, so as finally to develop the child into a man of well proportioned and harmonious nature, this is alike the aim of parent and teacher.

- Herbert Spencer

topic: Teacher, Children, Character, Homeschooling, Parents And Teachers

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.

- B. F. Skinner

source: New Scientist 21 May 1964

topic: Graduation, Education, Teacher, Math Education, Inspirational Graduation

The best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts at education.

- Paul Feyerabend

source: Paul Feyerabend, Paul K. Feyerabend (1987). “Farewell to Reason”, p.316, Verso

topic: Education, Teaching, Learning, Schooled

When you want to teach children to think, you begin by treating them seriously when they are little, giving them responsibilities, talking to them candidly, providing privacy and solitude for them, and making them readers and thinkers of significant thoughts from the beginning. That’s if you want to teach them to think.

- Bertrand Russell

topic: Education, Children, Teaching, Homeschooling, Schooled

I said there was nothing so convincing to an Indian as a general massacre. If he could not approve of the massacre, I said the next surest thing for an Indian was soap and education. Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run; because a half-massacred Indian may recover, but if you educate him and wash him, it is bound to finish him some time or other.

- Mark Twain

source: "Mark Twain’s Comedy Classics". 190+ Stories & Sketches,

topic: Running, Educational, Long, Massacres, Long Runs

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

- George Santayana

topic: Education, Teacher, Children, Unschooling, Inspirational Educational

When you make the finding yourself - even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light - you'll never forget it.

- Carl Sagan

topic: Inspirational, Knowledge, Light, Pale Blue Dot, Schooled

We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.

- Bertrand Russell

source: Bertrand Russell, Richard A. Rempel, Beryl Haslam (2000). “Uncertain Paths to Freedom: Russia and China, 1919-22”, p.356, Psychology Press

topic: Education, Art, Philosophy, Mendacity, Intelligence And Education

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.

- Anatole France

source: "Telephony", Volume 150, 1956.

topic: Education, Memories, Learning, Inspirational Educational, You Think You Know

Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.

- E. M. Forster

source: "The BBC Talks of E.M. Forster, 1929-1960: A Selected Edition". Book by Edward Morgan Forster, ‎Mary Lago, ‎Linda K. Hughes, June 3, 2008.

topic: Inspirational, Education, Running, Self Education, Good Students

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

- Henry Adams

source: 'The Education of Henry Adams' (1907) ch. 25

topic: Education, Teaching, Ignorance, Unschooling, Equal Opportunity

Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.

- Charles Caleb Colton

source: 'Lacon' (1820) vol. 1, no. 322

topic: Education, Teaching, Knowledge, Formidable, Funny Exam

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Graduation, Inspirational Learning, Inspiring Education

Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.

- Edmund Burke

topic: Children, School, Example, Schooled

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

- Will Durant

topic: Graduation, Education, Witty, Medical Education, Inspirational Education

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

- Derek Bok

topic: Inspirational, Graduation, Education, Inspirational Graduation, Inspirational High School Graduation

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

- Henry Adams

source: The Education of Henry Adams ch. 20 (1907)

topic: Inspirational, Leadership, Education, Math Teacher, Inspirational Education

Education is the movement from darkness to light.

- Allan Bloom

source: Allan Bloom (2008). “Closing of the American Mind”, p.265, Simon and Schuster

topic: Education, Light, Darkness, Darkness To Light, Students And Education

When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.

- Desiderius Erasmus

topic: Inspirational, Money, Food, Libraries And Reading, Libraries Books And Reading

It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty. To the contrary, I believe it would be possible to rob even a healthy beast of prey of its voraciousness, if it were possible, with the aid of a whip, to force the beast to devour continuously, even when not hungry.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Education, Mistake, Believe, Free Education, Philosophy Of Education

Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.

- Edward Everett

source: "The Common School Journal and Educational Reformer" edited by William B. Fowle, 1852.

topic: Education, Freedom, War, Student Learning, First Day Of School

Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds.

- Plato

topic: Children, Teaching, Mind, Unschooling, Inspirational Educational

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

- Theodore Roosevelt

topic: Graduation, Education, School, Going To College, Grad

In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.

- Tom Bodett

topic: Life, School, Lessons, Live And Learn, Inspirational Learning

They say that we are better educated than our parents' generation. What they mean is that we go to school longer. They are not the same thing.

- Douglas Yates

topic: Education, School, Mean, Well Educated, School Education

What's the difference between a bright, inquisitive five-year-old, and a dull, stupid nineteen-year-old? Fourteen years of the British educational system.

- Bertrand Russell

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Stupid, Educational, School, Inquisitive, Educational System

A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state.

- Isabel Paterson

source: Isabel Paterson (1993). “God of the Machine”, p.258, Transaction Publishers

topic: Educational, Liberty, States, Education System, Educational System

The condition of alienation, of being asleep, of being unconscious, of being out of one’s mind, is the condition of the normal man. Society highly values its normal man. It educates children to lose themselves and to become absurd, and thus to be normal. Normal men have killed perhaps 100,000,000 of their fellow normal men in the last fifty years.

- R. D. Laing

source: R.D Laing (1967). “The Politics of Experience”

topic: Children, Learning, Men, Unschooling, Problems In School

I've concluded that genius is as common as dirt. We suppress genius because we haven't yet figured out how to manage a population of educated men and women. The solution, I think, is simple and glorious. Let them manage themselves.

- John Taylor Gatto

topic: Learning, Simple, Men, Education System, Problems In School

Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.

- Henry Fielding

topic: Education, School, Vices, Public School, Immorality

School is where you go between when your parents can't take you and industry can't take you.

- John Updike

topic: Education, School, Parent, Unschooling, Going Back To School

Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

- Mark Twain

topic: Education, Food, Inspiration, Going Back To School, Back To College

Education rears disciples, imitators, and routinists, not pioneers of new ideas and creative geniuses. The schools are not nurseries of progress and improvement, but conservatories of tradition and unvarying modes of thought.

- Ludwig von Mises

source: Ludwig von Mises (1985). “Theory and History”, p.263, Ludwig von Mises Institute

topic: Learning, School, Knowledge, Creative Genius, Conservatory

A lot of fellows nowadays have a B.A., M.D., or Ph.D. Unfortunately, they don't have a J.O.B.

- Fats Domino

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Work, Jobless, Wordplay, Abbreviations, Doctorates

You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.

- Dale Carnegie

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Education, Inspirational Educational, Spiritual Education

When I look back at all the crap I learned in high school, it's a wonder I can think at all.

- Paul Simon

topic: Education, School, Learning, Unschooling, Schooled