I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him think.

You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him think.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.

To be in the weakest camp is to be in the strongest school.

To be in the weakest camp is to be in the strongest school.

It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.

It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.

I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up read more

I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.

There are only two tools available to the educator. The easy one is fear. Fear is easy to awake, easy read more

There are only two tools available to the educator. The easy one is fear. Fear is easy to awake, easy to maintain, but ultimately toxic. Other tool is passion.

We think there is a parallel between federal involvement in education and the decline in profit over recent years.

We think there is a parallel between federal involvement in education and the decline in profit over recent years.

The focus of tolerance education is to deal with the concept of equality and fairness. We need to establish confidence read more

The focus of tolerance education is to deal with the concept of equality and fairness. We need to establish confidence with children that there is more goodness than horror in this world.