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“Where once a tyrant had to wish that his subjects had but one common neck that he might strangle them all at once, all he has to do now is to 'educate the people' so that they will have but one common mind to delude.”

“The more subsidized it is, the less free it is. What is known as 'free education' is the least free of all, for it is a state-owned institution; it is socialized education - just like socialized medicine or the socialized post office - and cannot possibly be separated from political control.”

“Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.”

“It's time to admit that public education operates like a planned economy, a bureaucratic system in which everybody's role is spelled out in advance and there are few incentives for innovation and productivity. It's no surprise that our school system doesn't improve: It more resembles the communist economy than our own market economy.”

“Our schools are, in a sense, factories, in which the raw products (children) are to be shaped and fashioned into products to meet the various demands of life. The specifications for manufacturing come from the demands of twentieth-century civilization, and it is the business of the school to build its pupils according to the specifications laid down.”

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

“Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.”

“Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.”

“It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.”

“Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.”

“The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.”

“Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.”