Education

"Children enter school as question marks and leave as periods." Neil Postman

"Watching television requires no skills and develops no skills. That is why there is no such thing as remedial television-watching." Neil Postman

"Once you have learned to ask questions - relevant and appropriate and substantial questions - you have learned how to learn and no one can keep you from learning whatever you want or need to know." Neil Postman

"The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers, not because he is obstinate but because he knows others worthy of consideration." Allan Bloom

"True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it." Karl Popper

"Reading is the way out of ignorance, and the road to achievement." Ben Carson

"Education makes the wise slightly wiser, but it makes the fool vastly more dangerous." Nassim Nicholas Taleb

"Education makes machines which act like men and produces men who act like machines." Erich Fromm

"Knowledge is the acquiring of facts, understanding is the interpreting of facts, wisdom the application." Edwin Louis Cole

"A great teacher is not the one who gives answers, but the one who ignites curiosity." Unbekannt

"Whatever an education is, it should make you a unique individual, not a conformist." John Taylor Gatto

"Government schooling is the most radical adventure in history. It kills the family by monopolizing the best times of childhood and by teaching disrespect for home and parents." John Taylor Gatto

"As a writer, politician, scientist, and businessman, [Ben] Franklin had few equals among the educated of his day-though he left school at ten. (...)Boys like Andrew Carnegie who begged his mother not to send him to school and was well on his way to immortality and fortune at the age of thirteen, would be referred today for psychological counseling; Thomas Edison would find himself in Special Ed until his peculiar genius had been sufficiently tamed." John Taylor Gatto

"School is a twelve-year jail sentence where bad habits are the only curriculum truly learned." John Taylor Gatto