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“Grosvenor and Burke suggest that continually, though silently, a school building tells students who they are and how they should think about the world. It can help to manufacture rote obedience or independent activity; it can create high self-confidence or low self-esteem.”

Thinking World Should Self Helping School Self Esteem Students Building Activity Lows Independent Self Confidence Esteem Obedience Low Self Esteem School Buildings

Author:Alison Lurie

“In schools all over the world, little boys learn that their country is the greatest in the world, and the highest honor that could befall them would be to defend it heroically someday. The fact that empathy has traditionally been conditioned out of boys facilitates their obedience to leaders who order them to kill strangers.”

Source: Boys Will Be Boys: Breaking the Link Between Masculinity and Violence

“A servile race Who, in mere want of fault, all merit place; Who blind obedience pay to ancient schools, Bigots to Greece, and slaves to musty rules.”

Want School Pay Race Criticism Blind Faults Slave Mere Ancient Obedience Merit Greece Bigots Blind Obedience

Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“Grades don't measure anything other than your relevant obedience to a manager.”

School Education Teacher Managers Obedience Grades Relevant Measurement Teaching Children Good Grades Bad Grades

Author:John Taylor Gatto

“Mormon prophets have continuously taught the sublime truth that God the Eternal Father was once a mortal man who passed through a school of earth life similar that through which we are now passing. He became God - an exalted being - through obedience to the same eternal Gospel truths that we are given opportunity today to obey.”

Men Today School Earth Father Opportunity Given Taught Eternal Passing Passings Mortals Obedience Prophet Sublime Exalted Earth Life Given Opportunity

Author:Milton R. Hunter

“If you are a czar or a king or a president or someone that wants to control those below them you do not want people to have a consciousness of life, of their needs. Because people do not make good slaves when they're connected to life... That's why in the public schools the primary objective is obedience to authority.”

People Ifs Want Needs School President Consciousness Kings Authority Slave Connected Objectives Primaries Obedience Public School Czars Obedience To Authority

Author:Marshall B. Rosenberg