Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
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.
Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.
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.
In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.
Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
Education is hanging around until you've caught on.
We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.
Much that passes for education is not education at all but ritual. The fact is that we are being educated when we know it least.
How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
It's not just politicians. Any spokesman for a vested interest is well schooled in how to say what it is they wish to say, which may bear no relation at all to what you've asked them.
A strong State Department to me means a corps of career officials who believe that their job is to advocate America's interests and who are trained in effective advocacy, not schooled in accommodation.
I remember that I was never able to get along at school. I was at the foot of the class.
There is nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school.
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