Quotes on Schooled

Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.

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

Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.

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.

Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.

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.

Schools are designed on the assumption that there is a secret to everything in life; that the quality of life depends upon knowing that secret; that secrets can only be known in orderly successions; and that only teachers can properly reveal these secrets. An individual with a schooled mind conceives of the world as a pyramid of classified packages accessible only to those who carry the proper tags.

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.

Education is the movement from darkness to light.

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

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

When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.

Since every effort in our educational life seems to be directed toward making of the child a being foreign to itself, it must of necessity produce individuals foreign to one another, and in everlasting antagonism with each other.

Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.

One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated.

If the child is left to himself, he will think more and better, if less showily. Let him go and come freely, let him touch real things and combine his impressions for himself.

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

What's the difference between a bright, inquisitive five-year-old, and a dull, stupid nineteen-year-old? Fourteen years of the British educational system.

Education rears disciples, imitators, and routinists, not pioneers of new ideas and creative geniuses. The schools are not nurseries of progress and improvement, but conservatories of tradition and unvarying modes of thought.

It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty.

My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.