Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2009-08-19 Aug 19, 2009Talent develops in tranquillity, character in the full current of human life.~ Johann Wolfgang von GoetheTogether we have come to realize that for most men the right to learn is curtailed by the obligation to attend school.~ Ivan IllichThe conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.~ John Kenneth Galbraith Aug 17, 2009Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.~ Ronald ReaganMy schooling not only failed to teach me what it professed to be teaching, but prevented me from being educated to an extent which infuriates me when I think of all I might have learned at home by myself.~ George Bernard ShawAll the problems we face in the United States today can be traced to an unenlightened immigration policy on the part of the American Indian.~ Pat Paulsen Aug 14, 2009Socialism 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 GramsciHistorically, much of the motivation for public schooling has been to stifle variety and institute social control.~ Jack HughGrowth 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 Aug 13, 2009How do you tell a Communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin.~ Ronald ReaganWhen we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.~ Thomas PainePolitical history is far too criminal and pathological to be a fit subject of study for the young. Children should acquire their heroes and villains from fiction.~ W. H. Auden Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print