94 Quotes About Schooling

The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done; men and women who are creative, inventive and discoverers, who can be critical and verify, and not accept, everything they are offered.

KODO SAWAKI: Studying originally meant aspiring to discover the meaning of life. These days studying has become all about getting a job.

We get schooled by the people around us, and it stays inside us deep.

The whole of the Trivium was, in fact, intended to teach the pupil the proper use of the tools of learning.

We go to school to receive education, but when some get the certification, they forget their intuition.

To know, seek knowledge.

Education is a life-long process that involves not only formal schooling, but a continual quest to learn and understand what's happening in the world. It is driven by curiosity and a desire to know truth and acquire wisdom.

Learning can't be force fed. It needs to come in response to genuinely asked questions by genuinely curious people. Experts can't educate your kids until your kids have the desire to be educated.

Unceasing competition for official favor in the dramatic fish bowl of a classroom delivers cowardly children, little people sunk in chronic boredom, little people with no apparent purpose for being alive.