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Quotes About Schooling

The late Victorian Era brought in part-time education. Not everybody went to school, but they were supposed to have a decent level of schooling; they went part-time after 12.
~ Sarah Gavron
Film was something that I didn't see as a step up from music videos, though obviously, music videos, the fact that you work with a crew and a film camera, are the closest to film I've ever been. That is the only schooling I've ever had.
~ Anton Corbijn
I believe in education and wish I had a better one.
~ Loretta Lynn
The least of the work of learning is done in the classroom.
~ Thomas Merton
Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.
~ W. E. B. Du Bois
I believe the only lesson Thomas took from Oxford was that he detested schooling.
~ Rachel Kadish
Do you expect sincerity in man when hypocrisy is the very keynote of human nature? We are nurtured on it; we are schooled in it, we live by it; and we rarely realize it.' – Book 3, Chapter 16
~ Rafael Sabatini
I'm not dumb, I just wasn't educated.
~ Michael Oher
No child is racist. A child is born, and then they go through the educational system.
~ KRS-One
Education is equally important in one's life.
~ Neha Dhupia
I never say no to any event that is associated with education.
~ Mohammad Azharuddin
Grammar school never taught me anything about grammar.
~ Isaac Goldberg
I hope that schools have changed since I was a little girl. My memory of the teaching of the public schools is that it showed the brutal incomprehension of children.
~ Isadora Duncan
Institutional wisdom tells us that children need school. Institutional wisdom tells us that children learn in school. But this institutional wisdom is itself the product of schools because sound common sense tells us that only children can be taught in school. Only by segregating human beings in the category of childhood could we ever get them to submit to the authority of a schoolteacher.
~ Ivan Illich
P8- mere existence of school discourages and disables the poor from taking control of their own learning.
~ Ivan Illich
everywhere the school system has the same structure, and everywhere its hidden curriculum has the same effect. Invariably, it shapes the consumer who values institutional commodities above the nonprofessional ministration of a neighbor. Everywhere the hidden curriculum of schooling initiates the citizen to the myth that bureaucracies guided by scientific knowledge are efficient and benevolent.
~ Ivan Illich
Schools themselves pervert the natural inclination to grow and learn into the demand for instruction.
~ Ivan Illich
The public is indoctrinated to believe that skills are valuable and reliable only if they are the result of formal schooling.
~ Ivan Illich
School appropriates the money, men, and good will available for education and in addition discourages other institutions from assuming educational tasks. Work, leisure, politics, city living, and even family life depend on schools for the habits and knowledge they presuppose, instead of becoming themselves the means of education.
~ Ivan Illich
From now on we will focus on the four Rs: reading, writing, arithmetic, and rules.
~ Dan Gutman
My secondary schooling was at Marlborough College, Wiltshire, so I'm fond of that part of the world. It's quintessentially English, with village greens, pubs and cricket pitches, and resonates strongly with me.
~ Chris de Burgh
her parents had no way of telling her she was going away to school.
~ Lou Ann Walker
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~ Ludwig von Mises
A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
~ George Santayana