Quotes about Schooling

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If the emotions are free the intellect will look after itself — A.S. Neill
Considering he was neither priest nor scholar, the young man gave sensible, thoughtful replies -- the more so, perhaps, — Iain Pears, The Dream of Scipio
...some nights I'd sneak out and listen to the radio in my Dad's old Chevy - children need solitude - they don't teach t — John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
We had some good times at school. I didn't know how good those times was till I left, but I guess that's the way of it — Ron Rash, Serena
We, Equality 7-2521, were not happy in those year in the Home of the Students. It was not that the learning was too hard — Ayn Rand, Anthem
Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius. — William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
We want our children to become who they are--- and a developed person is, above all, free. But freedom as we define it d — Gregory J. Millman, Homeschooling: A Family's Journey
In my school, no consideration is given to anything unreasonable; the heart of the matter is to use the power of the kno — Miyamoto Musashi, The Book of Five Rings
Do not give them a candle to light the way, teach them how to make fire instead. That is the meaning of enlightenment. — Kamand Kojouri
There is nothing to be gained by pretending that academic involvement is necessary, or even always desirable, in the que — Christopher Langan
It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana
You are more likely to find three TVs inside a randomly selected house than you are to find a single book that is or was — Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in. — Leonardo da Vinci
Education is a system of imposed ignorance. — Noam Chomsky, Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent. — Mahatma Gandhi
Leaders are not, as we are often led to think, people who go along with huge crowds following them. Leaders are people w — John Holt, Teach Your Own: The John Holt Book Of Homeschooling
The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not — Jean Piaget
I suppose it is because nearly all children go to school nowadays and have things arranged for them that they seem so fo — Agatha Christie, An Autobiography
Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing. The rest is mere sheep herding. — Ezra Pound
The plain fact is that education is itself a form of propaganda - a deliberate scheme to outfit the pupil, not with the — H.L. Mencken