Education System Quotes

“The whole educational and professional training system is a very elaborate filter, which just weeds out people who are too independent, and who think for themselves, and who don't know how to be submissive, and so on -- because they're dysfunctional to the institutions.”
― Noam Chomsky

“When you take the free will out of education, that turns it into schooling.”
― John Taylor Gatto

“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.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays Including Essays, First & Second Series, English Traits, Nature & Considerations by the Way

“I've noticed a fascinating phenomenon in my thirty years of teaching: schools and schooling are increasingly irrelevant to the great enterprises of the planet. No one believes anymore that scientists are trained in science classes or politicians in civics classes or poets in English classes. The truth is that schools don't really teach anything except how to obey orders. This is a great mystery to me because thousands of humane, caring people work in schools as teachers and aides and administrators, but the abstract logic of the institution overwhelms their individual contributions. Although teachers to care and do work very, very hard, the institution is psychopathic -- it has no conscience. It rings a bell and the young man in the middle of writing a poem must close his notebook and move to a different cell where he must memorize that humans and monkeys derive from a common ancestor.”
― John Taylor Gatto, Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling

“And just because you have colleges and universities doesn't mean you have education.”
― Malcolm X, Malcolm X, Black Liberation, and the Road to Workers Power

“Children learn what they live. Put kids in a class and they will live out their lives in an invisible cage, isolated from their chance at community; interrupt kids with bells and horns all the time and they will learn that nothing is important or worth finishing; ridicule them and they will retreat from human association; shame them and they will find a hundred ways to get even. The habits taught in large-scale organizations are deadly.”
― John Taylor Gatto

“What's gotten in the way of education in the United States is a theory of social engineering that says there is ONE RIGHT WAY to proceed with growing up.”
― John Taylor Gatto, Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling

“All men are born free: just not for long.”
― John le Carré, A Murder of Quality

“Education is beautification of the inner world and the outer world.”
― Amit Ray, Nonviolence: The Transforming Power

“This crippling of individuals I consider the worst evil of capitalism. Our whole educational system suffers from this evil. An exaggerated competitive attitude is inculcated into the student, who is trained to worship acquisitive success as a preparation for his future career.”
― Albert Einstein, Why Socialism?

“With a philosophy education, one can infuriate his peers, intimidate his date, think of obscure, unreliable ways to make money, and never regret a thing.”
― Criss Jami, Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality

“People who cannot put strings of sentences together in good order cannot think. An educational system that does not teach the technology of writing is preventing thought.”
― Richard Mitchell, Less Than Words Can Say

“Individuality, family, and community are, by definition, expressions of singular organization, never of "one-right-way" thinking on the grand scale. Children and families need some relief from government surveillance and intimidation if original expressions belonging to THEM are to develop. Without these freedom has no meaning.”
― John Taylor Gatto

“Of course, there is a portion of reading quite indispensable to a wise man. History and exact science he must learn by laborious reading. Colleges, in like manner, have their indispensable office, - to teach elements. But they can only highly serve us, when they aim not to drill, but to create; when they gather from far every ray of various genius to their hospitable halls, and, by the concentrated fires, set the hearts of their youth on flame. Thought and knowledge are natures in which apparatus and pretension avail nothing. Gowns, and pecuniary foundations, though of towns of gold, can never countervail the least sentence or syllable of wit. Forget this, and our American colleges will recede in their public importance, whilst they grow richer every year.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, The American Scholar: Self-Reliance, Compensation

“Respect is not the equivalent to 'liking' a student or teacher; it is the ability to have a high regard for the role of another. In order to receive respect, we should demonstrate it first...”
― Tanya R. Liverman, Memoirs of an Educarer: An Inspiration for Education

“I admit it in school I was an underachiever and it was so easy to do.”
― Stanley Victor Paskavich

“In trying to justify the humanities, as in trying to live a life, what may turn out to matter most is holding one's nerve.”
― Stefan Collini

“A different voice may be particularly effective in disturbing the existing participants into re-examining matters they had come to take for granted.”
― Stefan Collini

“Good work, like good talk or any other form of worthwhile human relationship, depends upon being able to assume an extended shared world.”
― Stefan Collini

“Depth of understanding involves something which is more than merely a matter of deconstructive alertness; it involves a measure of interpretative charity and at least the beginnings of a wide responsiveness.”
― Stefan Collini

“Education founded on competition, is but mental malnutrition.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Either Right or Human: 300 Limericks of Inclusion

“Certificate without humanity is a ticket to stoneage.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Corazon Calamidad: Obedient to None, Oppressive to None

“Show me a nation with a huge defense budget, I'll show you a retarded nation. Show me a nation with a huge education budget, I'll show you a nation of the future.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Bulletproof Backbone: Injustice Not Allowed on My Watch

“Education is the ultimate defense policy.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Bulletproof Backbone: Injustice Not Allowed on My Watch

“Education is the highest form of defense.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Bulletproof Backbone: Injustice Not Allowed on My Watch

“In general, education fails to help people maintain relationships, control their finances, make sound investments and positive life decisions.”
― Wayne Gerard Trotman

“If education doesn’t make us humble, then something is very wrong with our system.”
― Bhuwan Thapaliya

“eXtended Reality (XR) and spatial computing are powerful tools that can both disrupt and revolutionize education, a dual potential that is both exciting and daunting.”
― Norbertus Krisnu Prabowo

“A good DEGREE certificate exists in your Brains NOT in papers.”
― PK Kasirim

“The successful adoption of societal systems to the AI revolution and the digital age is crucial for the viability of the systems in the future. The education systems is one such pivotal system that, if well-prepared, will facilitate the successful integration of AI and digital technologies into other societal structures.”
― Evalyne Kemuma