Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Updike

You cannot but learn more of the world's heft, as you take it now into your hands.

John Updike

I imagine most of that stuff on the information highway is roadkill anyway.

John Updike

The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education.

John Updike

Four years was enough of Harvard. I still had a lot to learn, but had been given the liberating notion that now I could teach myself.

John Updike

It's not up to us what we learn, but merely whether we learn through joy or through pain.

John Updike

School is where you go between when your parents can't take you and industry can't take you.

John Taylor Gatto

God was pitched out of forced schooling on his ear after WWII. This wasn't because of any constitutional proscription-there was none that anyone had been able to find in over a century and a half-but because the political state and corporate economy considered the Western spiritual tradition too dangerous a competitor. And it is.

John Taylor Gatto

Government schooling made people dumber, not brighter; made families weaker; ruined formal religion with its hard-sell exclusion of God; set the class structure in stone by dividing children into classes and setting them against one another; and has been midwife to an alarming concentration of wealth and power in the hands of a fraction of the national community.

John Taylor Gatto

Schools were designed by Horace Mann and Barnard Sears and Harper of the University of Chicago and Thorndyke of Columbia Teachers College and some other men to be instruments of the scientific management of a mass population. Schools are intended to produce through the application of formulae, formulaic human beings whose behavior can be predicted and controlled.

John Stuart Mill

Of all many-sided subjects, [education] is the one which has the greatest number of sides.

John Stuart Mill

The pupil who is never required to do what he cannot do, never does what he can do.

John Stuart Mill

‎A general State education is a mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactly like one another; and as the mould in which it casts them is that which pleases the dominant power in the government, whether this be a monarch, an aristocracy, or a majority of the existing generation; in proportion as it is efficient and successful, it establishes a despotism over the mind, leading by a natural tendency to one over the body.

James S. Coleman

If we refuse to accept as inevitable the irresponsibility and educational unconcern of the adolescent culture, then this poses a serious challenge.

James Russell Lowell

It was in making education not only common to all, but in some sense compulsory on all, that the destiny of the free republics of America was practically settled.

James Russell Lowell

He mastered whatever was not worth the knowing.

James Russell Lowell

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

James Q. Wilson

During the 1960s, one neighborhood in San Francisco had the lowest income, the highest unemployment rate, the highest proportion of families with incomes under four thousand dollars a year, the least educational attainment, the highest tuberculosis rate, and the highest proportion of substandard housing ... That neighborhood was called Chinatown. Yet, in 1965, there were only five persons of Chinese ancestry committed to prison in the entire state of California.

Laurence J. Peter

Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.

Laurence Sterne

The proper education of poor children [is] the ground-work of almost every other kind of charity.... Without this foundation firstlaid, how much kindnessis unavoidably cast away?

Laurence Sterne

Every thing in this world, said my father, is big with jest,--and has wit in it, and instruction too,--if we can but find it out.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

The object of all education is to make folks fit to live.

Larry Hagman

I didn't write the book to sell the book, but to tell my experiences.

Liberty Hyde Bailey

Every decade needs its own manual of handicraft.

Liberty Hyde Bailey

The true purpose of education is to teach a man to carry himself triumphant to the sunset.

Friedrich Schiller

Man is never so authentically himself as when at play.

Harvey Mackay

There's a place in the world for any business that takes care of its customers-after the sale.

Dan Castellaneta

And how is education supposed to make me feel smarter? Besides, every time I learn something new, it pushes some old stuff out of my brain. Remember when I took that home winemaking course, and I forgot how to drive?

John Ruskin

The entire object of true education, is to make people not merely do the right thing, but to enjoy right things; not merely industrious, but to love industry; not merely learned, but to love knowledge.

The group was formed to provide fellowship, fun and education.

Al Gore

The improvement in education should not be limited to technical related fields, as it should extends to include other systems of knowledge.

Henry Anatole Grunwald

Nagging questions remain: Where is the line between making the most of one's potential and reaching for the unattainable? Where is the line between education as a tool and education as a kind of magic? The line is blurred and that is why when education fails, disillusionment is so bitter.

Henry Adams

All State education is a sort of dynamo machine for polarizing the popular mind; for turning and holding its lines of force in the direction supposed to be most effective for State purposes.

Henry Adams

Education should try to lessen the obstacles, diminish the friction, invigorate the energy, and should train minds to react, not at haphazard, but by choice, on the lines of force that attract their world. What one knows is, in youth, of little moment; they know enough who know how to learn.