It sometimes seems as though we were trying to combine the ideal of no schools at all with the democratic read more

It sometimes seems as though we were trying to combine the ideal of no schools at all with the democratic ideal of schools for everybody by having schools without education.

Nature has always had more force than education.

Nature has always had more force than education.

Too often students are given answers to remember, rather than problems to solve

Too often students are given answers to remember, rather than problems to solve

Education, n. One of the few thing a fellow is willing to pay for and not get.

Education, n. One of the few thing a fellow is willing to pay for and not get.

Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every read more

Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it. -Sir William Haley.

The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any.

The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any.

There is nothing as stupid as an educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.

There is nothing as stupid as an educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.

Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.

Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.

There is nothing training cannot do. Nothing is above its reach. It can turn bad morals to good; it can read more

There is nothing training cannot do. Nothing is above its reach. It can turn bad morals to good; it can destroy bad principles and recreate good ones; it can lift men to angelship. -Mark Twain.