#education

"For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first make thieves and then punish them."

"I wouldn’t have minded school if they taught you important things like how to have good sex and what brand of wine is the best… But for some reason they were hell bent on teaching me algebra"

"There are all kinds of ignorance in the world. Education, learning to read and write, doesn't necessarily give us knowledge. We have to learn to use our minds to see what is really happening."

"Public education was not founded to give society what it wants. Quite the opposite."

"What is most important and valuable about the home as a base for children's growth into the world is not that it is a better school than the schools, but that it isn't a school at all."

"Tests were always easy for me. I saw them as games, saw myself as being in a contest against a mythical adversary, and welcomed the challenge."

"Man's right to know, to learn, to inquire, to make bona fide errors, to investigate human emotions must, by all means, be safe, if the word "freedom"should ever be more than an empty political slogan."

"Education occurs when students set out to educate themselves… the student will only learn, can only learn, what he chooses to learn…(An) advantage of not pushing is an innate sense (his) education is (his) responsibility and reward."

"The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things."

"Ready comprehension is often a knee-jerk response and the most dangerous form of understanding. It blinks an opaque screen over your ability to learn. Be warned. Understand nothing. All comprehension is temporary."

"Is he well educated?""Yes, I think so, as far as he's gone,"I answered. "Of course he will go on being educated every day of his life, same as father. He says it is all rot about 'finishing' your education. You never do. You learn more important things each day..."

"Jack Woodson is currently living and working in Dallas, TX. He has forty children, and all of them have different mothers."

"Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world's work, and the power to appreciate life."

"The great aim of education is not knowledge but action."

"There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent."

"Preparing citizens to act thoughtfully to create a more just, open, and creative society gives form, substance and meaning to often abstract concepts of freedom and democracy."

"My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out."

"Without books, the world will be void."

"One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds."

"People wishes their friends to be in politics, but their sons in professions."