It isn’t a coincidence that governments everywhere want to educate children. Government education, in turn, is supposed to be evidence of the state’s goodness and its concern for our well-being. The real explanation is less flattering. If the government’s propaganda can take root as children grow up, those kids will be no threat to the state apparatus. They will fasten the chains to their own ankles. – Lew Rockwell.
What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch for a free, meandering brook. – Henry David Thoreau.
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. – Mark Twain.
North American economies dazzled the world for centuries because they encouraged resourcefulness, individuality, and risk-taking to dominate the marketplace, and these qualities were encouraged in everyone, not just in the elites. Lockstep schooling driven by standardized testing, testing not to measure learning but obedience, was the mechanism used to drive out imagination and courage. – John Taylor Gatto.
What is Ritalin and Adderall were prescribed less and Nature prescribed more? – Richard Louv.
I have no special talents. I am just passionately curious. – Albert Einstein.
If we taught babies to talk as most skills are taught in school, they would memorize lists of sounds in a predetermined order and practice them alone in a closet. – Linda Darling-Hammond.
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated. – Alec Bourne.
Learn as if you were not reaching your goal and as though you were scared of missing it. – Confucious.
School is about learning to wait your turn, however long it takes to come, if ever. And how to submit with a show of enthusiasm to the judgement of strangers, even if they are wrong, even if your enthusiasm is phony. – John Taylor Gatto.
