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Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.
– Abbé Dimnet

Teaching does not make learning – organized education operates on the assumption that children learn only when and only what and only because we teach them. This is not true. It is very close to 100% false. Learners make learning.
~ John Holt

Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing. The rest is mere sheep herding.
~ Ezra Pound

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.
~ Bertrand Russell

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance – it is the illusion of knowledge.
~ Daniel J. Boorstin

Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt.
~ Robert Lindner

Stand firm in your refusal to remain conscious during algebra. In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
~ Fran Lebowitz

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain a perennial child.
~ Cicero

He that loves reading has everything within his reach.
~ William Godwin

Unless education promotes character making, unless it helps men to be more moral, more just to their
fellows, more law abiding, more discriminatingly patriotic and public spirited, it is not worth the trouble taken to furnish it.
~ President William Howard Taft

The way you help heal the world is you start with your own family.
~ Mother Teresa

Cowardice asks the question: is it safe?
Expediency asks the question: is it politic?
Vanity asks the question: is it popular?
But conscience asks the question: is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular – but one must take it because it’s right.
~ Martin Luther King Jr.

The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.
~ Thomas Edison

Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.
~ Christopher Morley

o be perpetually talking sense runs out the mind, as perpetually ploughing and taking crops runs out the land. The mind must be manured, and nonsense is very good for the purpose.
~ James Boswell

When freedom prevails, the ingenuity and inventiveness of people creates incredible wealth. This is the source of the natural improvement of the human condition.
~ Brian S. Wesbury

The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion – these are the most valuable coin of the thinker at work. But in most schools guessing is heavily penalized and is associated somehow with laziness.
~ Jerome S. Bruner

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind. Therefore do not use compulsion, but let early education be a sort of amusement; you will then be better able to discover the child’s natural bent.
~ Plato

Boredom is a sickness the cure for which is work; pleasure is only a palliative.
~ Le Duc de Lévis

My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
~ Adlai Stevenson

The plain fact is that education is itself a form of propaganda – a deliberate scheme to outfit the pupil, not with the capacity to weigh ideas, but with a simple appetite for gulping ideas ready-made. The aim is to make ‘good’ citizens, which is to say, docile and uninquisitive citizens.
~ H. L. Mencken

If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the opposite direction.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The state will take youth and will give to youth its own education and its own upbringing. Your child already belongs to us… What are you?
~ Adolf Hitler

School days, I believe, are the unhappiest in the whole span of human existence. They are full of dull, unintelligible tasks, new and unpleasant ordinances, brutal violations of common sense and common decency. It doesn’t take a reasonably bright boy long to discover that most of what is rammed into him is nonsense, and that no one really cares very much whether he learns it or not.
~ H. L. Mencken

There is no idea so stupid that you can’t find a professor who will
believe it.
~ H. L. Mencken

There is more to life than increasing its speed.
~ Gandhi

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