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“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.”

“There is less flogging in our great schools than formerly-but then less is learned there; so what the boys get at one end they lose at the other.”

Ends School Loses Education Boys Learning Great Schools Flogging

Author:Samuel Johnson

“The world is a university and everyone in it is a teacher. Make sure when you wake up in the morning you go to school.”

World School Education Morning Learning Teacher Wake Up University Continuous Learning

Author:T. D. Jakes

“Native ability without education is like a tree without fruit.”

School Ability Education Learning Tree Fruit Educational Native

Author:Aristippus

“Learn as much as you can while you are young, since life becomes too busy later.”

School Young Education Learning Busy Too Busy School Life First Day Of School Off To College Going Back To School

Author:Dana Scott

“Children not only have to learn what their parents learned in school, but also have to learn how to learn. This has to be recognized as a new problem which is only partly solved.”

Children Problem School Parent Learning Educational Literacy

Author:Margaret Mead

“I am much afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labour in explaining the Holy Scriptures, and engraving them in the hearts of youth. I advise no one to place his child where the scriptures do not reign paramount. Every institution in which means are not unceasingly occupied with the Word of God must be corrupt.”

Heart Mean Children School Education Hell Learning Youth Holy Prove Institutions Scripture Labour Gates Word Of God Reign Explaining Advise Paramount Holy Scriptures Gates Of Hell

Author:Martin Luther

“If we taught babies to talk as most skills are taught in school, they would memorize lists of sounds in a predetermined order and practice them alone in a closet.”

Source: Be the Change: Reinventing School for Student Success

“School days, I believe, are the unhappiest in the whole span of human existence.”

Believe Humans Whole School I Believe Existence Education Learning Schooling Human Existence Unschooling School Days Common Decency

Book:Mencken Chrestomathy

Source: Mencken Chrestomathy

“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.”

“As far as I have seen, at school...they aimed at blotting out one's individuality.”

School Learning Individuality Unschooling

Author:Franz Kafka

“School presents daily exercises in dis-association. It forces unwelcome associations on most of its prisoners. It sets petty, meaningless competitions in motion on a daily basis, pitting potential associates against one another in contests for praise and other worthless prizes.”

School Force Learning Exercise Bases Praise Competition Prize Prisoner Meaningless Association Associates Contests Worthless Petty Unwelcome Daily Exercise

Author:John Taylor Gatto

“My schooling not only failed to teach me what it professed to be teaching, but prevented me from being educated to an extent which infuriates me when I think of all I might have learned at home by myself.”

“School prepares for the alienating institutionalization of life by teaching the need to be taught.”

Needs School Learning Teaching Taught Unschooling

Book:The Dawn of Epimethean Man, and Other Essays

Source: The Dawn of Epimethean Man, and Other Essays

“A 'school-at-home' approach to homeschooling is just decorating the electric chair in different colors.”

Different Home School Learning Color Approach Chairs Electric Homeschooling Decorating Different Colors Electric Chair

Author:Joseph Chilton Pearce

“Schools have not necessarily much to do with education...they are mainly institutions of control where certain basic habits must be inculcated in the young. Education is quite different and has little place in school.”

Littles Different School Young Certain Learning Society Habit Institutions Schooling Schooled Unschooling Education And Freedom

Author:Winston Churchill

“My grandmother wanted me to get a good education, so she kept me as far away from schools as possible.”

Wanted School Learning Grandmother Far Away My Grandmother Good Education

Author:Margaret Mead

“One of the first things a family tries to teach its children is the difference between good and evil, right and wrong. One of the first things our schools do is destroy that distinction.”

Trying Firsts Children School Evil Differences Teach Learning Distinction Good And Evil

Author:John Taylor Gatto

“It is absurd and anti-life to be part of a system that compels you to listen to a stranger reading poetry when you want to learn to construct buildings, or to sit with a stranger discussing the construction of buildings when you want to read poetry.”

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

“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.”

“I loved learning, it was school I hated. I used to cut school to go learn something.”

School Used Learning Cutting Hated Unschooling

Author:Eric Jensen

“School is about learning to wait your turn, however long it takes to come, if ever. And how to submit with a show of enthusiasm to the judgment of strangers, even if they are wrong, even if your enthusiasm is phony.”

Ifs Long Shows School Turns Waiting Learning Judgment Stranger Enthusiasm Submit Phony Unschooling

Author:John Taylor Gatto

“It was at home I learned the little I know. Schools always appeared to me like a prison, and never could I make up my mind to stay there, not even for four hours a day, when the sunshine was inviting, the sea smooth, and when it was joy to run about the cliffs in the free air, or to paddle in the water.”

Knows Mind Littles Home Running School Joy Water Hours Learning Four Air Sea Prison Sunshine Smooth Cliffs Inviting Unschooling

Author:Claude Monet

“I exclusively attended public school... And I can honestly say that on the day of my graduation, if you had given me a pop quiz on history, science, or math, I would have in no way been able to pass it - despite the fact that I completely understood it at the time that it had been 'taught' to me, and had even made a good 'grade' on it.”

Ifs Way Made I Can Facts Able School Given Learning Taught Understood Pops Math Honestly Despite Grades Public School Good Grades Quiz

Author:Jessica Bowman

“Education rears disciples, imitators, and routinists, not pioneers of new ideas and creative geniuses. The schools are not nurseries of progress and improvement, but conservatories of tradition and unvarying modes of thought.”

Source: Theory and History

“Some people can't leave school because they're carrying it around like a snail and his shell. They live there, still. School became an ingrown, hard part of them. They still define themselves by their school failures and successes.”

People Stills Hard School Learning Shells Success And Failure Snail

Author:Sandra Dodd

“Why don't we teach our children in school what they are? We should say to them, 'You are unique... you have the capacity for anything. You are a marvel'.”

Should Children School Teach Learning Relationship Unique Capacity Our Children

Author:Charles Handy

“Most great learning happens in groups. Collaboration is the stuff of growth.”

Happens School Stuff Growth Education Learning Groups Teamwork Collaboration Cooperation Cooperation And Collaboration

Author:Ken Robinson

“When I look back at all the crap I learned in high school, it's a wonder I can think at all.”

Thinking Looks I Can School Education Wonder Learning High School Crap Schooled Unschooling

Author:Paul Simon

“Education is not a product: mark, diploma, job, money-in that order; it is a process, a never-ending one.”

School Jobs Order Process Education Learning Teaching Products Mark Independent Never Ending Diploma High School Diploma

Book:This and That: Random Thoughts and Recollections

Source: This and That: Random Thoughts and Recollections

“I've come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element in the classroom. It's my personal approach that creates the climate. It's my daily mood that makes the weather. As a teacher, I possess tremendous power to make a student's life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated and a student humanized or de-humanized.”

“I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.”

Book:Irrepressible Churchill: a treasury of Winston Churchill's wit

Source: Irrepressible Churchill: a treasury of Winston Churchill's wit

“And if we want to achieve our goal, then let us empower ourselves with the weapon of knowledge and let us shield ourselves with unity and togetherness.”

Ifs Want School Goal Learning Achieve Weapons Unity Empowering Togetherness Shields Self Empowerment Access To Education

Author:Malala Yousafzai

“When the student is ready the teacher will appear.”

“How fortunate for civilization, that Beethoven, Michelangelo, Galileo and Faraday were not required by law to attend schools where their total personalities would have been operated upon to make them learn acceptable ways of participating as members of "the group."”

Way Has Beens School Law Science Learning Groups Personality Civilization Members Fortunate Operations Acceptable Participating

Author:Joel Henry Hildebrand

“In the real world, the smartest people are people who make mistakes and learn. In school, the smartest people don't make mistakes.”

People World Inspirational Real Inspiration School Business Mistake Learning Inspire Entrepreneur Making Mistakes Real World Learning From Mistakes Rich And Poor Smart People

Author:Robert Kiyosaki

“[At high school in Cape Town] my interests outside my academic work were debating, tennis, and to a lesser extent, acting. I became intensely interested in astronomy and devoured the popular works of astronomers such as Sir Arthur Eddington and Sir James Jeans, from which I learnt that a knowledge of mathematics and physics was essential to the pursuit of astronomy. This increased my fondness for those subjects.”

“You see it in schools all over... the concept that 'I'll be somewhat less than my best in order to make those around me feel more comfortable' is alive and well... I'm very keen that they understand that if they make themselves a little less than they can be, it is a one-way street to mediocrity.”

Ifs Way Feels Wells Littles School Order Leadership Education Learning Alive Streets Comfortable Concepts One Way Mediocrity

Author:Fiona Wood

“Schools must inquire deeper into their own practices, explore new ways to motivate their learners, make use of learning styles, introduce multiple intelligences, integrate learning, and teach thinking, and in the process discover the passion and moral purpose that makes teaching exciting and effective.”

Thinking Way Use School Purpose Passion Process Moral Teach Practice Learning Teaching Style Exciting Deeper Introducing New Ways Multiple Integrating Learners Multiple Intelligences

Author:Michael Fullan

“We know at lot more now than the 'last time around the 1960s and 1970s - about how to work for smart schools... ' 'The smart school finds it's foundation in a rich and evolving set of principles about human thinking and learning.'”

Thinking Knows Humans School Lasts Principles Learning Rich Teaching Smart Foundation Evolve Last Time 1960s

Book:Smart Schools: From Training Memories to Educating Minds

Source: Smart Schools: From Training Memories to Educating Minds

“We've got to do fewer things in school. The greatest enemy of understanding is coverage... You've got to take enough time to get kids deeply involved in something so they can think about it in lots of different ways and apply it.”

Thinking Way Different Enough Kids School Understanding Enemy Learning Teaching Involved Different Ways Fewer Enough Time Coverage

Author:Howard Gardner

“I was fortunate to get a scholarship when I went to Lehigh University and Princeton. They were both wonderful schools. Somebody was kind enough to spend their money to educate people that they would never get to know. That's what I think philanthropy is about.”

People Thinking Knows Kind Enough School Money Learning Wonderful University Fortunate Educate Philanthropy Scholarship Princeton

Author:Lee Iacocca

“Get out of bed, go to school, stick at school. Make it happen for yourself because those opportunities are waiting.”

Happens School Opportunity Waiting Education Learning Bed Sticks Make It Happen

Author:Andrew Forrest

“I think there's too much emphasis placed on learning things by rote that you don't really care about. So what happens to students in school is that they eventually lose interest in learning, because they've been forced to learn the required courses, rather than pursing their passion.”

Thinking Inspirational Happens Care School Spiritual Passion Courses Interest Loses Learning Too Much Students Self Improvement Emphasis

Author:Jack Canfield

“We learn not in the school, but in life.”

Life School Learning Thought Provoking Provoking Antiquity Thoughts On Life

Author:Seneca the Younger

“You don't get to decide your part in the school play, but you do get to decide whether or not you play it well.”

Wells Play School Learning Personality Aging School Plays

Author:Cynthia Lewis

“Don't be afraid to ask questions. Don't be afraid to ask for help when you need it. I do that every day. Asking for help isn't a sign of weakness, it's a sign of strength. It shows you have the courage to admit when you don't know something, and to learn something new.”

Knows Needs Helping Shows School Asks Education Learning Weakness Asking Something New Asking For Help

Author:Barack Obama

“A school should not be a preparation for life. A school should be life.”

Should School Education Learning Teacher Preparation Retirement

Book:Contemplations: Being Several Short Essays Helpful Sermonettes, Epigrams and Orphic Sayings

Source: Contemplations: Being Several Short Essays Helpful Sermonettes, Epigrams and Orphic Sayings

“We must school and train ourselves to deal personally with the unconverted. We must not excuse ourselves, but force ourselves to the irksome task until it becomes easy.”

School Force Easy Deals Learning Self Improvement Tasks Train Perseverance Excuse Persistence Preacher Self Discipline Baptists No Excuses Push Yourself Self Transformation Spiritual Transformation

Book:Select Works

Source: Select Works

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