Education

"Education in our times must try to find whatever there is in students that might yearn for completion, and to reconstruct the learning that would enable them autonomously to seek that completion." Allan Bloom

"To accuse others for one's own misfortune is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete." Epiktet

"Only the educated are free." Epiktet

"The primary goal of real education is not to deliver facts but to guide students to the truths that will allow them to take responsibility for their lives." John Taylor Gatto

"School is the first impression children get of organized society. Like most first impressions it is the lasting one. Life is dull and stupid, only Coke provides relief. And other products, too, of course." John Taylor Gatto

"When you take the free will out of education, that turns it into schooling." John Taylor Gatto

"There isn't a right way to become educated; there are as many ways as there are fingerprints." John Taylor Gatto

"Teaching is a function, not a profession. Anything with something to offer can teach." John Taylor Gatto

"The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not." Aldous Huxley

"Schools [are]...institutions monopolizing the daytimes of childhood." John Taylor Gatto

"The public is not cognizant of the real value of education, and does not realize that education as a social force is not receiving the kind of attention it has the right to expect in a democracy." Edward Bernays

"Whether you want to uncover the secrets of the universe, or you just want to pursue a career in the 21st century, basic computer programming is an essential skill to learn." Stephen W. Hawking

"It is really an alienation to believe that learning is the result of teaching." Ivan Illich

"School divides life into two segments, which are increasingly of comparable length. As much as anything else, schooling implies custodial care for persons who are declared undesirable elsewhere by the simple fact that a school has been built to serve them." Ivan Illich