Education

"The only purpose of education is freedom; the only method is experience." Leo Tolstoi

"Education is the point at which we decide whether we love the world enough to assume responsibility for it, and by the same token save it from that ruin which except for renewal, except for the coming of the new and the young, would be inevitable. And education, too, is where we decide whether we love our children enough not to expel them from our world and leave them to their own devices, nor to strike from their hands their chance of undertaking something new, something unforeseen by us, but to prepare them in advance for the task of renewing a common world." Hannah Arendt

"Learning has always been made much of, but forgetting has always been deprecated; therefore pedantry has pretty well established itself throughout the modern world at the expense of culture." Albert Jay Nock

"The substance of my being has been informed by the books I learned to care for." Allan Bloom

"In times of change, learners inherit the earth" Erich Fromm

"'Good English' is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another." C. S. Lewis

"It is clearly absurd to limit the term 'education' to a person's formal schooling." Murray Rothbard

"There's a good reason why nobody studies history, it just teaches you too much." Noam Chomsky

"Justice is a faculty that may be developed. This development is what constitutes the education of the human race." Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

"...there must be a sequence to learning, that perseverance and a certain measure of perspiration are indispensable, that individual pleasures must frequently be submerged in the interests of group cohesion, and that learning to be critical and to think conceptually and rigorously do not come easily to the young but are hard-fought victories." Neil Postman

"The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society." Noam Chomsky

"School prepares for the alienating institutionalization of life by teaching the need to be taught." Ivan Illich

"I intend to discuss some perplexing issues which are raised once we embrace the hypothesis that society can be deschooled; to search for criteria which may help us distinguish institutions which merit development because they support learning in a deschooled milieu; and to clarify those personal goals which would foster the advent of an Age of Leisure (schole) as opposed to an economy dominated by service industries." Ivan Illich

"Deep learning doesn't shine." Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach