#schooling

For Oscar, high school was the equivalent of a medieval spectacle, like being put in the stocks and forced to endure the peltings and outrages of a mob of deranged half-wits, an experience from which he supposed he should have emerged a better person, but that’s not really what happened—and if there were any lessons to be gleaned from the ordeal of those years he never quite figured out what they were. He walked into school every day like the fat lonely nerdy kid he was, and all he could think about was the day of his manumission, when he would at last be set free from its unending horror. Hey, Oscar, are there faggots on Mars?—Hey, Kazoo, catch this. The first time he heard the term moronic inferno he know exactly where it was located and who were its inhabitants. ↗

— Junot Díaz

#geeks #nerd #nerdiness #nerds #school

At then end of this experiment we call Alice's childhood, I imagine if she's as eager to move ahead with her passions as the graduates I'd just met, and as fond of her family as these kids seemed to be of theirs, I'll have my answer. ↗

— Quinn Cummings

#experience

More important...you've assembled a curriculum that works for him. It's his education. I suspect he's more likely to have a real education, an education that sticks, if he's part of shaping it. ↗

— Quinn Cummings

#education

Colleges hate geniuses, just as convents hate saints. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#genius #home-schooling #humor #school #humor

Genius is an exceedingly common human quality, probably natural to most of us. ↗

— John Taylor Gatto

#homeschool #homeschooling #learning #education

If the emotions are free the intellect will look after itself ↗

— Alexander Sutherland Neill

#philosophy #unschooling #education

I was shocked, however, to discover that homeschooling is not allowed in the Netherlands. I could only imagine that after legalizing pot, prostitution and gambling, they had to outlaw something. ↗

— Quinn Cummings

#homeschooling #netherlands #prostitution #imagination

The government gets it right on Head Start. We are providing opportunities for children in underserved areas where parents may not be able to afford preschool so they can begin their schooling with a running or Head Start. ↗

— Bob Filner

#afford #areas #begin #children #gets

School has become the world religion of a modernized proletariat, and makes futile promises of salvation to the poor of the technological age. ↗

— Ivan Illich

#deschooling-society #education #ivan-illich #pedagogic-philosophy #pedagogy

To confuse compulsory schooling with equal educational opportunity is like confusing organized religion with spirituality. One does not necessarily lead to the other. Schooling confuses teaching with learning, grade advancement with education, a diploma with competence, and fluency with the ability to say something new. ↗

— Wendy Priesnitz

#homeschool #homeschooling #education