#school

This made him a grad student, and grad students existed not to learn things but to relieve the tenured faculty members of tiresome burdens such as educating people and doing research. ↗

— Neal Stephenson

#humor #education

I imagine that one of the biggest troubles with colleges is there are too many distractions, too much panty-raiding, fraternities, and boola-boola and all of that. ↗

— Malcolm X

#education #schooling #studying #education

Education is for freedom - freedom from mental slavery. ↗

— Ogwo David Emenike

#education #free #freedom #inspirational #mental

Scoring well on tests is the sort of happy thing that gets the school district the greenbacks they crave. Understanding and appreciating the material are secondary. ↗

— Libba Bray

#knowledge #school #test #education

I've never done acid, finding it hard to go willingly to a place that could be frightening, hellish, and totally beyond my control. A place much like high school. ↗

— Libba Bray

#going-bovine #hell #school #education

It's not that I feel that school is a good idea gone wrong, but a wrong idea from the word go. It's a nutty notion that we can have a place where nothing but learning happens, cut off from the rest of life. ↗

— John Holt

#learning #life #school #education

The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think - rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with the thoughts of other men. ↗

— James Beattie

#homeschool #homeschooling #learning #education

Unless education promotes character making, unless it helps men to be more moral, more just to their fellows, more law abiding, more discriminatingly patriotic and public spirited, it is not worth the trouble taken to furnish it. ↗

— William Howard Taft

#homeschool #homeschooling #learning #education

It is hard not to feel that there must be something very wrong with much of what we do in school, if we feel the need to worry so much about what many people call 'motivation'. A child has no stronger desire than to make sense of the world, to move freely in it, to do the things that he sees bigger people doing. ↗

— John Holt

#homeschool #homeschooling #learning #education

In our secular society, school has become the replacement for church, and like church it requires that its teachings must be taken on faith. ↗

— John Taylor Gatto

#public-education #schooling #secularism #education