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2008 May 30
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"Academies that are founded at public expense are instituted not so
much to cultivate men's natural abilities as to restrain them." |
"Hitherto the plans of the educationalists have achieved very little
of what they attempted, and indeed we may well thank the beneficent
obstinacy of real mothers, real nurses, and (above all) real children
for preserving the human race in such sanity as it still possesses." |
"To be nobody but yourself -- in a world which is doing it's best, night and day, to make you like everybody else -- means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting." |
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2008 May 29
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"What is the task of higher education? To make a man into a machine. What are the means employed? He is taught how to suffer being bored." |
"Is it not ironical that in a planned society of controlled workers given compulsory assignments, where religious expression is suppressed, the press controlled, and all media of communication censored, where a puppet government is encouraged but denied any real authority, where great attention is given to efficiency and character reports, and attendance at cultural assemblies is mandatory, where it is avowed that all will be administered to each according to his needs and performance required from each according to his abilities, and where those who flee are tracked down, returned, and punished for trying to escape - in short in the milieu of the typical large American secondary school - we attempt to teach 'the democratic system'?" |
"There are only two places in the world where
time takes precedence over the job to be done.
School and prison." |
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2008 May 28
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"Education is a private matter between the person
and the world of knowledge and experience,
and has little to do with school or college." |
"My grandmother wanted me to have an education,
so she kept me out of school." |
"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education." |
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2008 May 27
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"Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without education. Education enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence." |
"If you suppose that good intentions justify intruding on the lives and properties of your fellow citizens: Do you appreciate being the target of somebody else's good intentions, or haven't you had that particular dubious pleasure yet?" |
"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." |
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2008 May 26
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"The shocking possibility that dumb people don't exist in sufficient numbers to warrant the millions of careers devoted to tending them will seem incredible to you. Yet that is my central proposition: the mass dumbness which justifies official schooling first had to be dreamed of; it isn't real." |
"Government schooling is the most radical adventure in history.
It kills the family by monopolizing the best times of childhood
and by teaching disrespect for home and parents...." |
"Who besides a degraded rabble would voluntarily
present itself to be graded and classified like meat?
No wonder school is compulsory." |
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