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  • You must pray...without prayer, all the schooling in the world will not produce the effect God wants homeschooling to give.

    Prayer   Giving   World  
  • I was taught by professors who had done their schooling in the 1930s. Most of them were scornful of, even hated, big business.

  • I don't know that my schooling was conducive to wild ideas and creativity, but it gave me discipline, drive. They taught me how to think. I really know how to think.

    "I've felt famous my whole life" by Laura Barton, www.theguardian.com. January 20, 2009.
  • 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.

  • I feel sorry for the poor kids whose parents feel they're qualified to teach them at home. Of course, some parents are smarter than some teachers, but in the main I see home-schooling as misguided foolishness.

    Teacher   Sorry   Home  
    Dick Cavett (2014). “Brief Encounters: Conversations, Magic Moments, and Assorted Hijinks”, p.129, Henry Holt and Company
  • Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.

    "The Rhythm of Life : Living Every Day with Passion and Purpose" by Matthew Kelly, (p. 80), 2004.
  • Through private investment capitalism kept raising the productivity of labor to new heights. Parents were able to earn enough so their offspring did not have to join the work force at an early age. This produced something unique in history: Childhood, a time when the young could experience the innocence of play and opportunity of schooling before entering the world of work.

  • By preventing a free market in education, a handful of social engineers - backed by the industries that profit from compulsory schooling: teacher colleges, textbook publishers, materials suppliers, et al. - have ensured that most of our children will not have an education, even though they may be thoroughly schooled.

  • Because of the kind of music that I liked, and the different way that I dressed, it was kind of a perfect storm, creating a situation where I existed on my own throughout my schooling.

  • Twenty years of schooling and they put you on the day shift - look out out kid, they keep it all hid

    Kids   Years   Twenties  
  • There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison.

    Funny   Jobs   Learning  
  • Education makes a people easy to lead but difficult to drive easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.

    Attributed; no source found
  • I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.

    Sir Winston Churchill (1966). “Irrepressible Churchill: a treasury of Winston Churchill's wit”
  • If a man attains a high station in life, it is because he has acquired or was blessed with native ability as a salesman. Schooling, college degrees, intellect, brilliancy, are of no avail to the man who lacks the ability to attract the cooperative efforts of others, thus to create opportunities for himself.

    Napoleon Hill (2009). “How To Sell Your Way Through Life”, p.7, John Wiley and Sons
  • Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.

    Marian Wright Edelman (2013). “The Measure of our Success: A Letter to My Children and Yours”, p.18, Beacon Press
  • I learned more about elections on election night 2000 than I ever did during my 16 years of schooling.

    Night   Years   Comedy  
  • The sense of justice springs from self-respect; both are coeval with our birth. Children are born with an innate sense of justice; it usually takes twelve years of public schooling and four more years of college to beat it out of them.

    Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.19, RosettaBooks
  • Knowledge is recognizing what you know and what you don't.

  • It is clearly absurd to limit the term 'education' to a person's formal schooling.

    Limits   Absurd   Formal  
  • There are only two places in the world: over here and over there.

    Two   World   Unschooling  
    George Carlin (2015). “3 x Carlin: An Orgy of George including Brain Droppings, Napalm and Silly Putty, and When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?”, p.105, Hachette UK
  • Slowly I began to realize that the bells and the confinement, the crazy sequences, the age-segregation, the lack of privacy, the constant surveillance, and all the rest of the national curriculum of schooling were designed exactly as if someone had set out to prevent children from learning how to think and act, to coax them into addiction and dependent behavior.

    John Taylor Gatto, Thomas Moore (2013). “Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling”, p.19, New Society Publishers
  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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 (1968). “Mother Earth, a Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Social Science and Literature”
  • This life is just your schooling for what you have to do when you graduate.

  • I try never to let my schooling get in the way of my education.

  • There is, in fact, only one solution: the state, the government, the laws must not in any way concern themselves with schooling or education. Public funds must not be used for such purposes. The rearing and instruction of youth must be left entirely to parents and to private associations and institutions

    Government   Law   Parent  
    Ludwig Von Mises (1962). “The free and prosperous commonwealth: an exposition of the ideas of classical liberalism”
  • Sometimes a rural life - without agricultural culture, community, or land - it means that you're a very long drive from everything. It's a big cultural isolation in terms of any kind of schooling where you could get exposed to things that might push the positive buttons. The geography of where people find themselves situated, both in metropolises and in the heartland, really starts to matter.

    Heart   Mean   Land  
    "Debra Granik on "poverty porn," self-worth, and her new film, Stray Dog". Interview with Sam Fragoso, www.avclub.com. July 11, 2015.
  • School days, I believe, are the unhappiest in the whole span of human existence.

    H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.308, Vintage
  • We are, all of us, creatures of habit, and when the seeeming necessity for schooling ourselves in new ways ceases to exist, we fall naturally and easily into the manner and customs which long usage has implanted ineradicably within us.

    Fall   Long   Way  
    Edgar Rice Burroughs (2015). “EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS Ultimate Collection: 30+ Adventure Novels & Science Fiction Classics (Illustrated): The Tarzan Series, The Barsoom Series, The Pelucidar Series, Caspak Trilogy, The Mucker Trilogy, Lost World Novels, Fantastic Stories, Historical Novels and more”, p.418, e-artnow
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