Quotes on School Education

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

Education makes a people easy to lead but difficult to drive easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

In England ... education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and would probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square.

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

If you want to prevent abortions, you make sure everyone has health care, a high school education and birth control. Not the exact opposite.

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

If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.

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.

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

Anyone who stops learning is old — whether this happens at twenty or at eighty. Anyone who keeps on learning not only remains young but becomes constantly more valuable — regardless of physical capacity.

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

A general State education is a mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactly like one another, and as the mould in which it casts them is that which pleases the dominant power in the government.

The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education.

Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.