Quotes on Problems In School

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.

Society highly values its normal man. It educates children to lose themselves and to become absurd, and thus to be normal.

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.

Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.