Quotes on Compulsory Education

The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.

The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.

Avoid compulsion and let early education be a matter of amusement. Young children learn by games; compulsory education cannot remain in the soul.

It is better to tolerate the rare instance of a parent refusing to let his child be educated, than to shock the common feelings and ideas by forcible asportation and education of the infant against the will of the father.

It was in making education not only common to all, but in some sense compulsory on all, that the destiny of the free republics of America was practically settled.

I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers.

Continued adherence to a policy of compulsory education is utterly incompatible with efforts to establish lasting peace.

Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.