Education

"Don't let schooling interfere with your education." Mark Twain

"You stay young as long as you can learn, acquire new habits, and suffer contradictions." Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

"What is important is not the quantity of your knowledge but its quality. You can know many things without knowing the most important." Leo Tolstoi

"Those who cannot remember clearly their own childhood are poor educators." Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

"The true purpose of education is to make minds, not careers." Chris Hedges

"Education is the movement from darkness to light." Allan Bloom

"Education is not the taming or domestication of the soul's raw passions - not suppressing them or excising them, which would deprive the soul of its energy - but forming and informing them as art." Allan Bloom

"The end of education is to form a being fit to govern itself, not a being fit to be governed by others" Herbert Spencer

"One of the biggest problems with college degrees is they've made a lot of people think they are much smarter than they truly are. This arrogance and smugness makes them dumber because they think they're too smart to receive new information from anybody with fewer 'credentials'." ZUBY

"Never confuse education with intelligence, you can have a PhD and still be an idiot." Richard Feynman

"The best teacher does not give the answers, but awakens curiosity." yoice.net

"We are burning out the few children we still have in a deficient education and care system so that parents can work a lot for little money, just to maintain an economic system that is doomed to fail." Gerald Hüther

"Schools train people to be ignorant, with style. They give you the equipment that you need to be a functional ignoramus. American schools* do not equip you to deal with things like logic; they don’t give you the criteria by which to judge between good and bad in any medium or format; and they prepare you to be a usable victim for military-industrial complex that needs manpower. As long as you’re just smart enough to do a job and just dumb enough to swallow what they feed you, you’re gonna be alright. But if you go beyond that then you’re gonna have these grave doubts that give you stomach problems, headaches…make you want to go out and do something else. So, I believe that schools mechanically and very specifically try and breed out any hint of creative thought in the kids that are coming out." Frank Zappa

"I feel ashamed that so many of us cannot imagine a better way to do things than locking children up all day in cells instead of letting them grow up knowing their families, mingling with the world, assuming real obligations, striving to be independent and self-reliant and free." John Taylor Gatto