What Some Great Minds Thought of Schooling
To teach a man how he may learn to grow independently, and for himself, is perhaps the greatest service that one man can do another. – Benjamin Jowett
How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it. – Alexandre Dumas
There is nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school. –George Bernard Shaw
My grandmother wanted me to have an education, so she kept me out of school. –Margaret Mead
When I think back on all the nonsense I was taught in school, it’s a wonder I can think at all. –Paul Simon
I taught public school for 26 years, but I just can’t do it anymore. For years I asked the school board to let me teach a curriculum that doesn’t hurt kids, but they always had other fish to fry. If you hear of a job where I don’t have to hurt kids to make a living, let me know. The truth is that schools don’t really teach anything, but blind obedience. –John Taylor Gatto- New York Teacher of the Year
Together we have come to realize that the right to learn is curtailed by the obligation to attend school. –Ivan Illich
We are students of words; we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have not the least doubt that school developed in me nothing but what was evil and left the good untouched. – Edward Grieg
School forcibly snatches away children from a world full of the mystery of God’s own handiwork, full of the suggestiveness of personality. It is a mere method of discipline which refuses to take into account the individual. It is a manufactory specially designed for grinding out uniform results. It follows an imaginary straight line of the average in digging its channel of education. But life’s line is not the straight line, for it is fond of playing the see-saw with the line of average, bringing upon its head the rebuke of the school. For according to the school life is perfect when it allows itself to be treated as dead, to be cut into symmetrical conveniences. And this was the cause of my suffering when I was sent to school….my mind had to accept the tight-fitting encasement of the school which, being like the shoes of a mandarin woman, pinched and bruised my nature on all sides and at every movement. I was fortunate enough in extricating myself before insensibility set in. – Rabindranath Tagore
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of facts. – James Baldwin
Children who know how to think for themselves spoil the harmony of the collective society which is coming where everyone is interdependent. – John Dewey, the basis of the one World Common Core Curriculum!
A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad. – Theodore Roosevelt
Education for international understanding involves the use of education as a force for conditioning the will of the people. – National School Boards Association
“I suppose it is because nearly all children go to school nowadays and have things arranged for them that they seem so forlornly unable to produce their own ideas.” – Agatha Christie
We’re not being taught to deal with the world as is it is. We’re being taught to deal with this fairy land that we’re not even living in anymore. And it’s sad. Because it’s me telling you. And it should not be me telling you. 2Pac
“I think modern school is a negative experience. I believe you can learn more out of school than in it. There is now a universal education system, whether you are in an Arab country, China or somewhere else. This universal education is only going to vary according to the political atmosphere of the given country. For example, in Iraq, the indoctrination is probably more obvious whereas in the US it is just more subtle. School is an artificial construct to socialize individuals into a group identity. The whole idea of a “school of fish” is that everyone swims together whereas traditional Islamic education was completely individualized. What it did was give people all those tools (in the West called “liberal arts”) such as grammar, rhetoric, and logic, through which people could actually think and use their brains.
In public high schools, you are not given tools, you are given information and data. In fact, a metaphor that is used in education today is that you’re basically a hard drive that needs to be written with a given software. You will then fulfill whatever are the social needs of the society. Schooling today is designed only to matriculate people into the logic of the system itself. Then people end up in meaningless jobs doing meaningless work, and never really think about what type of society they’re contributing to.” – Sheikh Hamza Yusuf
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