94 Quotes About Schooling

I can’t believe that centralized schooling is allowed to exist at all as a gigantic indoctrination and sorting machine, robbing people of their children.

Ordinary people send their children to school to get smart, but what modern schooling teaches is dumbness.

I have seen the fruits of adult education. It can be done. And anyone who has worked in adult education knows that he must appeal for self-help. There are no monitors to keep adults at the task. There are no examinations and grades, none of the machinery of external discipline. The person who learns something out of school is self-disciplined. He works for merit in his own eyes, not credit from the registrar. (1940 ed. page 104)

The extreme wealth of American big business is the direct result of school having trained us in certain attitudes like a craving for novelty. That’s what the bells are for. They don’t ring so much as to say ,"Now for something different".

Trapped children, like trapped rats, need close management.

A classroom with twenty students and one teacherHas twenty-one students and twenty one-teachers.

Turn one school from a robot factory into a cradle of heroes, and the very face of education on earth will change.

Schooling isn't important to get success but studies, experiences and skills are essential.

You are yet to catch up with the real world if you've never studied any concepts outside the school syllabus or read any books beside the texts books school forced you to read. Most people are just programmed not educated