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  • Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.

    Ernest Dimnet (1954). “The Art of Thinking”, p.36, Prabhat Prakashan
  • From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.

    Critique of the Gotha Program pt. 1 (1875).
  • 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.

  • The role of the schoolmaster is to collect little plastic lumps of human dough from private households and shape them on the social kneading board.

    School   Boards   Roles  
    Edward Alsworth Ross (2009). “Social Control: A Survey of the Foundations of Order”, p.168, Transaction Publishers
  • Education is the movement from darkness to light.

    Allan Bloom (2008). “Closing of the American Mind”, p.265, Simon and Schuster
  • A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

    George Santayana (1950). “Atoms of Thought: An Anthology of Thoughts”
  • A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

    The Education of Henry Adams ch. 20 (1907)
  • A succession of eye-openers each involving the repudiation of some previously held belief.

    Education   Eye   Belief  
  • 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”
  • The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.

  • My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.

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

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

    "Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson".
  • 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.

    Education   School   Mean  
  • 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.

  • Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. The average American [should be] content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted to think about any other role.

  • 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.

  • Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength of the nation.

    Proclamation 3422 at the American Education Week, www.presidency.ucsb.edu. July 25, 1961.
  • I believe that school makes complete fools of our young men, because they see and hear nothing of ordinary life there.

    Believe   School   Men  
    Petronius (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Petronius (Illustrated)”, p.164, Delphi Classics
  • 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.

  • Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.

  • Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.

    Beatrix Potter (2005). “Beatrix Potter: Artist & Illustrator”, Frederick Warne Publishers
  • Education is a weapon the effect of which is determined by the hands which wield it, by who is to be struck down.

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

    "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.
  • Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.

    James Madison, David B. Mattern (1997). “James Madison's "Advice to My Country"”, p.41, University of Virginia Press
  • It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

    "Conducting Meaningful Interpretation: A Field Guide for Success". Book by Alan E. Wilkinson, p. 154, 2006.
  • 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, Walt McLaughlin (2010). “The Laws of Nature: Excerpts from the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.34, North Atlantic Books
  • The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

    Mark Twain (2015). “The Prince and the Pauper (StoneHenge Classics)”, p.154, StoneHenge Classics
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