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.

Instead of a national curriculum for education, what is really needed is an individual curriculum for every child.

Instead of a national curriculum for education, what is really needed is an individual curriculum for every child.

Impartially their talents scan,
Just education forms the man.
- John Gay,

Impartially their talents scan,
Just education forms the man.
- John Gay,

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

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.

Education is not a product: mark, diploma, job, money in that order; it is a process, a never ending one

Education is not a product: mark, diploma, job, money in that order; it is a process, a never ending one

My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.

My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.

We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, read more

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.