Education

"By the early seventeenth century, a new consensus began to arise: the idea that man was born incompetent for society and remained so unless he was provided with 'education.'" Ivan Illich

"The State shall make no law with respect to the establishment of education." Ivan Illich

"He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying." Friedrich Nietzsche

"I've nothing against schools! I'm against compulsory schooling." Ivan Illich

"The whole educational and professional training system is a very elaborate filter, which just weeds out people who are too independent, and who think for themselves, and who don't know how to be submissive, and so on -- because they're dysfunctional to the institutions." Noam Chomsky

"Government schooling made people dumber, not brighter; made families weaker; ruined formal religion with its hard-sell exclusion of God; set the class structure in stone by dividing children into classes and setting them against one another; and has been midwife to an alarming concentration of wealth and power in the hands of a fraction of the national community." John Taylor Gatto

"Reading is the scourge of childhood because, in a sense, it creates adulthood." Neil Postman

"The more you know, the more you see" Aldous Huxley

"Learning is like rowing against the current. As soon as you stop, you drift back." Edward Benjamin Britten

"Anyone who keeps learning stays young." Henry Ford

"Schools teach the need to be taught." Ivan Illich

"Learning from programmed information always hides reality behind a screen." Ivan Illich

"Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way." Noam Chomsky

""People's minds are trained largely at the expense of their hearts." This is not so; it is only that there are more educable minds than there are educable hearts." Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach