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The reason why I hated school so intensely [was that] it interfered with my freedom.
Sep 29, 2025
I have not the least doubt that school developed in me nothing but what was evil and left the good untouched.
I believe that school makes complete fools of our young men, because they see and hear nothing of ordinary life there.
Let our pupil be taught that he does not belong to himself, but that he is public property. Let him be taught to love his family, but let him be taught at the same time that he must forsake and even forget them when the welfare of his country requires it.
Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.
Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail.
Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
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.
Education, the great mumbo jumbo and fraud of the age purports to equip us to live and is prescribed as a universal remedy for everything from juvenile delinquency to premature senility.
Education, the great mumbo jumbo and fraud of the age.
It's time to admit that public education operates like a planned economy, a bureaucratic system in which everybody's role is spelled out in advance and there are few incentives for innovation and productivity. It's no surprise that our school system doesn't improve: It more resembles the communist economy than our own market economy.
Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.
My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.
I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
Think about every problem, every challenge, we face. The solution to each starts with education.
Show me the man who has enjoyed his schooldays and I will show you a bully and a bore.
The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.
Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.
All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
Education makes a people easy to lead but difficult to drive easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in. That every man may receive at least a moderate education...appears to be an object of vital importance...
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in.
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.
Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength of the nation.
Far from failing in its intended task, our educational system is in fact succeeding magnificently, because its aim is to keep the American people thoughtless enough to go on supporting the system.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is.
Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.
I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.
Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?
Anyone who keeps learning stays young.
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.
Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.
It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.