Schools And Education Quotes:

The reason why I hated school so intensely [was that] it interfered with my freedom.

- Sigrid Undset

source: "Sigrid Undset on saints and sinners: new translations and studies".

topic: School, Hated, Schools And Education

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

- Bertrand Russell

source: Bertrand Russell (2013). “History of Western Philosophy: Collectors Edition”, p.578, Routledge

topic: Education, Stupid, School, Not Stupid, Knowledge And Ignorance

The shocking possibility that dumb people don't exist in sufficient numbers to warrant the millions of careers devoted to tending them will seem incredible to you. Yet that is my central proposition: the mass dumbness which justifies official schooling first had to be dreamed of; it isn't real.

- John Taylor Gatto

topic: Real, School, Careers, Dumbness, Schooling

Nothing enrages me more than when people criticize my criticism of school by telling me that schools are not just places to learn maths and spelling, they are places where children learn a vaguely defined thing called socialization...I think schools generally do an effective and terribly damaging job of teaching children to be infantile, dependent, intellectually dishonest, passive and disrespectful to their own developmental capacities.

- Seymour Papert

topic: Jobs, Children, Teaching, Socialization, Infantile

Who besides a degraded rabble would voluntarily present itself to be graded and classified like meat? No wonder school is compulsory.

- John Taylor Gatto

topic: School, Meat, Wonder, Compulsory Education, Schools And Education

That everyone may receive at least a moderate education appears to be an objective of vital importance.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Education, May, Literacy, Public Education, Public School

I remember that I was never able to get along at school. I was at the foot of the class.

- Thomas A. Edison

topic: Education, School, Class, Unschooling, Schools And Education

Much that passes for education is not education at all but ritual. The fact is that we are being educated when we know it least.

- David P. Gardner

topic: Educational, Facts, Educated, Teaching Education, School Education

After a child has arrived at the legal age for attending school,-whether he be the child of noble or of peasant,-the only two absolute grounds of exemption from attendance are sickness and death.

- Horace Mann

source: Horace Mann (1868). “Annual reports on education (ed. by mrs. M. Mann).”, p.365

topic: Children, School, Two, Exemption, Schools And Education

Education, the great mumbo jumbo and fraud of the age purports to equip us to live and is prescribed as a universal remedy for everything from juvenile delinquency to premature senility.

- Malcolm Muggeridge

topic: School, Age, Delinquency, Juvenile Delinquency, Senility

Far from failing in its intended task, our educational system is in fact succeeding magnificently, because its aim is to keep the American people thoughtless enough to go on supporting the system.

- Richard Mitchell

topic: Educational, School, People, Homeschooling, Educational System

Let our pupil be taught that he does not belong to himself, but that he is public property. Let him be taught to love his family, but let him be taught at the same time that he must forsake and even forget them when the welfare of his country requires it.

- Benjamin Rush

topic: Country, School, Doe, Public Education, Public School

The more subsidized it is, the less free it is. What is known as 'free education' is the least free of all, for it is a state-owned institution; it is socialized education - just like socialized medicine or the socialized post office - and cannot possibly be separated from political control.

- Frank Chodorov

source: Frank Chodorov (1980). “Fugitive essays: selected writings of Frank Chodorov”, Liberty Fund Inc.

topic: Medicine, Office, Political, Socialized Medicine, Free Education

Think about every problem, every challenge, we face. The solution to each starts with education.

- George H. W. Bush

source: Address to the Nation on the National Education Strategy, www.presidency.ucsb.edu. April 18, 1991.

topic: Thinking, Presidential, Challenges, Public Education, Public School

School is the first impression children get of organized society. Like most first impressions it is the lasting one. Life is dull and stupid, only Coke provides relief. And other products, too, of course.

- John Taylor Gatto

topic: Children, Stupid, School, Schools And Education

Wherever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to insure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery.

- Benjamin Disraeli

source: Speech in the House of Commons, June 15, 1874.

topic: Education, School, Government, Limited Government, Schools And Education

Where once a tyrant had to wish that his subjects had but one common neck that he might strangle them all at once, all he has to do now is to 'educate the people' so that they will have but one common mind to delude.

- Richard Mitchell

source: Richard Mitchell (1987). “The leaning tower of Babel and other affronts by the Underground grammarian”, Fireside

topic: School, Tyrants, People, Schools And Education

When the state or federal government controls the education of all of our children, they have the dangerous and illegitimate monopoly to control and influence the thought process of our citizens.

- Michael Badnarik

topic: Children, School, Government, Federal Government, Schools And Education

Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.

- Arthur Koestler

topic: Inspiring, Teacher, Learning, Creative People, Inspiration And Creativity

Show me the man who has enjoyed his schooldays and I will show you a bully and a bore.

- Robert Morley

source: Robert Morley, Sewell Stokes (1967). “Robert Morley: a reluctant autobiography”

topic: School, Men, Bully, Schools And Education

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

Government schooling is the most radical adventure in history. It kills the family by monopolizing the best times of childhood and by teaching disrespect for home and parents.

- John Taylor Gatto

source: "I Quit, I Think," The Wall Street Journal, en.wikiquote.org. July 25, 1991.

topic: Teaching, Home, Adventure, Monopolizing, Government Education

The child should be taught to consider his instructor...superior to the parent in point of authority.... The vulgar impression that parents have a legal right to dictate to teachers is entirely erroneous.... Parents have no remedy as against the teacher.

- John Swett

topic: Teacher, Children, School, Schools And Education

Our schools are, in a sense, factories, in which the raw products (children) are to be shaped and fashioned into products to meet the various demands of life. The specifications for manufacturing come from the demands of twentieth-century civilization, and it is the business of the school to build its pupils according to the specifications laid down.

- Ellwood Patterson Cubberley

source: Ellwood Patterson Cubberley (1916). “Public School Administration: A Statement of the Fundamental Principles Underlying the Organization and Administration of Public Education”

topic: Children, School, Civilization, Specifications, Schools And Education

I suppose it is because nearly all children go to school nowadays and have things arranged for them that they seem so forlornly unable to produce their own ideas.

- Agatha Christie

topic: Education, Children, Learning, Homeschooling, Children And Education

We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Education, School, College, Unschooling, Public Education

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Education, Learning, Unschooling, Inspirational Educational

‎A general State education is a mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactly like one another; and as the mould in which it casts them is that which pleases the dominant power in the government, whether this be a monarch, an aristocracy, or a majority of the existing generation; in proportion as it is efficient and successful, it establishes a despotism over the mind, leading by a natural tendency to one over the body.

- John Stuart Mill

source: John Stuart Mill (1978). “On Liberty”, Penguin Books

topic: Education, Successful, Government, Education And Freedom, Government Education

The things taught in schools & colleges are not an education but the means of education.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

source: "Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson".

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

Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.

- John Cotton Dana

source: John Cotton Dana's remarks on a quotation suitable for inscription on a new building at Newark State College, Union, New Jersey (1912) as quoted in "The New York Times Book Review" (p. 55.), March 5, 1967.

topic: Inspirational, Dare, Teach, Math Education, Inspirational Education

‎A general State education is a mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactly like one another; and as the mould in which it casts them is that which pleases the dominant power in the government, whether this be a monarch, an aristocracy, or a majority of the existing generation; in proportion as it is efficient and successful, it establishes a despotism over the mind, leading by a natural tendency to one over the body.

- John Stuart Mill

topic: Education, Successful, Government, Education And Freedom, Government Education

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

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.

- Dr. Seuss

topic: Inspirational, Life, Positive, Library Cards, Happy Children

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

- William Butler Yeats

source: "Gov. Brown Uses State of the State Speech to Push Education Reforms" by Adolfo Guzman-Lopez, www.scpr.org. January 24, 2013.

topic: Inspirational, Graduation, Education, Learning To Read, Joy Of Learning

Education makes a people easy to lead but difficult to drive easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.

- Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux

source: Attributed; no source found

topic: Education, People, Impossible, Teacher Student, Student Learning

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Leadership, Incomplete Knowledge, Fine Arts

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.

- Vern Law

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

topic: Inspirational, Education, Teacher, Education And Knowledge, Educating Others

Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in.

- Abraham Lincoln

source: "Lincoln's Inaugurals, Addresses and Letters".

topic: Education, Teacher, Teaching, Public Education, Inspiring Education

The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality.

- H. L. Mencken

topic: Learning, Enlightenment, Safe, Individual Liberty, Unschooling

Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it.

- William Haley

topic: Girl, School, Learning, Intelligence And Education, Leaving School

I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.

- Anne Sullivan Macy

topic: Education, Children, Learning, Unschooling, Self Education

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

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

- Robert Frost

topic: Inspirational, Education, Patience, Learning To Read, Bad Temper

Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?

- Erich Fromm

topic: Love, Family, Happiness, Students And Education, Education System

The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

- Malcolm Forbes

topic: Inspirational, Education, Travel, Math Education, Math Teacher

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

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

- Aristotle

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Graduation, Inspirational Education, Keep An Open Mind

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Funny, Hilarious, Education, Not Stupid, Infinite Intelligence