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Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.
Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.
There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.
There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.
Education is not a preparation for life; education is life itself.
Education is not a preparation for life; education is life itself.
A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimension.
A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimension.
More mony is put into prisons than into schools. That, in itself, is the description of a nation bent on read more
More mony is put into prisons than into schools. That, in itself, is the description of a nation bent on suicide. I mean, what is more precious to us than our own children? We are going to build alot more prisons if we do not deal with the schools and their inequalities. -Jonathan Kozol.
Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of read more
Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?
Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be read more
Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.
An educated people can be easily governed.
An educated people can be easily governed.
They teach in academies far too many things, and far too much that is useless.
They teach in academies far too many things, and far too much that is useless.
