Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"The public expects too much from teachers because educationists have led it to believe teachers could be substitute parents, psychotherapists, cops, social workers, dieticians, nursemaids, babysitters, and nose wipers and still do a decent job teaching kids to read, write, and do math. Instead of saying no, educationists have added courses in environmental education, death education, personal hygiene, self-esteem, driver's ed, job readiness, sexual harassment, radon studies, yoga, yogurt awareness, and god-knows-what-else."

~ Charlie Sykes  

"That erroneous assumption is to the effect that the aim of public education is to fill the young of the species with knowledge and awaken their intelligence, and so make them fit to discharge the duties of citizenship in an enlightened and independent manner. Nothing could be further from the truth. The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all, it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed and train a standardized citizenry, to put down dissent and originality. That is its aim in the United States, whatever the pretensions of politicians, pedagogues and other such mountebanks, and that is its aim everywhere else."

~ H. L. Mencken  

"A tax supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state."

~ Isabel Paterson  

"'Parent choice' proceeds from the belief that the purpose of education is to provide individual students with an education. In fact, educating the individual is but a means to the true end of education, which is to create a viable social order to which individuals contribute and by which they are sustained. 'Family choice' is, therefore, basically selfish and anti-social in that it focuses on the 'wants' of a single family rather than the 'needs' of society."

~ Association of California School Administrators  

"Teachers are directed to instruct their pupils... and to awaken in them a sense of their responsibility toward the community of the nation."

~ Bernhard Rust  

"Children who know how to think for themselves spoil the harmony of the collective society which is coming where everyone is interdependent."

~ John Dewey (False)  

"The National Education Association believes that
home schooling programs based on parental choice cannot
provide the student with a comprehensive education experience."

~ National Education Association Resolution  

"The group consisting of mother, father and child is the main educational agency of mankind."

~ Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.  

"A family member asked my wife, "Aren't you concerned about his (our son's) socialization with other kids?" My wife gave this response: "Go to your local middle school, junior high, or high school, walk down the hallways, and tell me which behavior you see that you think our son should emulate." "

~ Manfred B. Zysk  

"Nothing enrages me more than when people criticize my criticism of school by telling me that schools are not just places to learn math and spelling, they are places where children learn a vaguely defined thing called socialization. I know. I think schools generally do an effective and terribly damaging job of teaching children to be infantile, dependent, intellectually dishonest, passive and disrespectful to their own developmental capacities."

~ Seymour Papert  

"Education rears disciples, imitators, and routinists, not pioneers of new ideas and creative geniuses. The schools are not nurseries of progress and improvement, but conservatories of tradition and unvarying modes of thought."

~ Ludwig von Mises  

"Men had better be without education than be educated by their rulers; for their education is but the mere breaking in of the steer to the yoke; the mere discipline of the hunting dog, which, by dint of severity, is made to forego the strongest impulse of his nature, and instead of devouring his prey, to hasten with it to the feet of his master."

~ Thomas Hodgskin  

"Your book is dedicated
by the soundest reason.
You had better get out of France
as quickly as you can."

~ Voltaire  

"As long as I don't write about
the government, religion, politics,
and other institutions,
I am free to print anything."

~ Pierre-Augustin Beaumarchais  

"Where once a tyrant had to wish that his subjects
had but one common neck that he might strangle them all at once,
all he has to do now is to 'educate the people'
so that they will have but one common mind to delude."

~ Richard Mitchell  

"Schools have not necessarily much to do with education...
they are mainly institutions of control,
where basic habits must be inculcated in the young.
Education is quite different and has little place in school."

~ Sir Winston Churchill