Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [141-160] of 416 Education quotesEducation QuotesEducation Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.~ James A. Garfield If the aborigine drafted an IQ test, all of Western civilization would presumably flunk it.~ Stanley Garn Growth and mastery come only to those who vigorously self-direct. Initiating, creating, doing, reflecting, freely associating, enjoying privacy—these are precisely what the structures of schooling are set up to prevent, on one pretext or another.~ John Taylor Gatto School is the first impression children get of organized society. Like most first impressions it is the lasting one. Life is dull and stupid, only Coke provides relief. And other products, too, of course.~ 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 The shocking possibility that dumb people don’t exist in sufficient numbers to warrant the millions of careers devoted to tending them will seem incredible to you. Yet that is my central proposition: the mass dumbness which justifies official schooling first had to be dreamed of; it isn’t real.~ John Taylor Gatto Who besides a degraded rabble would voluntarily present itself to be graded and classified like meat? No wonder school is compulsory.~ John Taylor Gatto There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison.~ William Glasser Make men wise, and by that very operation you make them free. Civil liberty follows as a consequence of this; no usurped power can stand against the artillery of opinion.~ William Godwin Government will not fail to employ education to strengthen its hands and perpetuate its institutions.~ William Godwin Nothing is as terrible to see as ignorance in action.~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The main thing is to have a soul that loves the truth and harbours it where he finds it. And another thing: truth requires constant repetition, because error is being preached about us all the time, and not only by isolated individuals but by the masses. In the newspapers and encyclopedias, in schools and universities, everywhere error rides high and basks in the consciousness of having the majority on its side.~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Talent develops in tranquillity, character in the full current of human life.~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The best of all government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The Trilateralist Commission is international...(and)...is intended to be the vehicle for multinational consolidation of the commercial and banking interests by seizing control of the political government of the United States. The Trilateralist Commission represents a skillful, coordinated effort to seize control and consolidate the four centers of power - political, monetary, intellectual, and ecclesiastical.~ Barry Goldwater You can't make socialists out of individualists. Children who know how to think for themselves spoil the harmony of the collective society which is coming where everyone is interdependent.~ Rosalie M. Gordon Socialism is precisely the religion that must overwhelm Christianity. … In the new order, Socialism will triumph by first capturing the culture via infiltration of schools, universities, churches and the media by transforming the consciousness of society.~ Antonio Gramsci [A]ny provider that commands 90 percent of the market—whether we’re talking about software, phone service, or heating oil—is, by definition, a monopoly. Our government employs thousands of bureaucrats to track down and break up monopolies on the grounds that monopolies stifle competition and thereby produce bad products at high prices. Doesn’t it strike anyone as strange that the same government protects its own monopoly in education? And stranger still, that nearly everyone accepts this state of affairs as normal—as something that has always been and must always be? ... [C]ompetition forces public schools into making long-overdue repairs. And it offers poor parents the choices they desperately desire.~ Jennifer A. Grossman Advances are made by answering questions. Discoveries are made by questioning answers.~ Bernhard Haisch Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print