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“Schools themselves pervert the natural inclination to grow and learn into the demand for instruction.”

Book:Deschooling Society

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Ivan Illich

Ivan Illich, born on September 4, 1926 and died on December 2, 2002, was a renowned philosopher. His research focused on the fields of education, technology, and social criticism, reflecting deeply on modern society. more

“Institutional wisdom tells us that children need school. Institutional wisdom tells us that children learn in school. But this institutional wisdom is itself the product of schools because sound common sense tells us that only children can be taught in school. Only by segregating human beings in the category of childhood could we ever get them to submit to the authority of a schoolteacher.”

School

Book:Deschooling Society

Source: Deschooling Society

“Dana raised her hand. "I learned about exaggeration," she said. "It was all my teacher ever talked about. We had like ten thousand tests on it, and the teacher would kill you if you didn't spell it right." "That's very good, Dana!" said Mrs. Jewls. "You learned your lesson well.”

School Teacher Exaggeration Lesson

Book:Wayside School Gets A Little Stranger

Source: Wayside School Gets A Little Stranger

“I wonder in what way I would function as a person, in a society without ever attending school. I'd be myself.”

School Education Wonder Function Reform Being Yourself True Finding Yourself Conform Person Being Truest Me Unlearn Formal Education Nonconformist Unthinking

Author:J.R. Rim

“That which is now called learning, was not learning originally. Learning does not consist, as the schools now make it consist, in the knowledge of languages, but in the knowledge of things to which language gives names.”

School Language Knowledge Learning

Book:The age of reason

Source: The age of reason

“School is testing our memory and real world is testing our memory + how we use this which we know.”

World Real School Memory Testing Know Is How

Author:Deyth Banger

“Why people use "Was" I have heard some people to say "I was a smart kid at school - Eminem", but why "Was", was is a word for describing the past... which will mean that has started and ended... so what??? How to get it now? You aren't wise, are you?”

Mean School Past Smart You Word Celebrity Say Kid Are Was Has Eminem

Author:Deyth Banger

“It's always a kind of liberation to leave the classroom during a lesson, even just for a few minutes. As if you have managed to steal a little time for yourself, to take a break from reality”

School

Author:Sara Bergmark Elfgren

“I may be a idiot, but most of the time, anyway, I tried to do the right thing, an dreams is just dreams, ain’t they? So whatever else has happened, I am figgerin this: I can always look back an say, at least I ain’t led no hum-drum life.”

Inspirational Quotes

Book:Forrest Gump

Source: Forrest Gump

“Books and school are great for learning but there is no substitute for life and living to provide a real education.”

“When we first arrived at the school we received an extended introduction detailing what a wonderful place it was and how lucky we were to be there. But no one explained exactly why we were to be there. Yes, we understood the general objective was to accumulate knowledge, although learning Shakespeare and algebra did not strike us as particularly helpful to our future lives. I've yet to meet a single person who found a use for algebra in later life. The excuse proffered was that it developed intelligence. It struck me as extremely unintelligent not to give us the opportunity to study subjects that would be of practical use as well as develop our intelligence. I learned Boyle's law and Ohm's law parrot fashion without having a clue as to their meaning, yet left the school five years later incapable of changing a fuse or wiring a three-pin plug. Understandably, we formed the general impression that we were there for the same reason we were sent to Sunday school – to keep us out of mischief until we were old enough to work.”

School Education Childhood Trauma

Author:Allen Carr

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