Quotes About Schooling

Much that passes for education is not education at all but ritual. The fact is that we are being educated when we know it least.

Modern education is like being taken to the world's greatest restaurant & being forced to eat the menu.

At every hour of every day, I can tell you on which page of which book each school child in Italy is studying.

It is hard to convince a high-school student that he will encounter a lot of problems more difficult than those of algebra and geometry.

You know there is a problem with the education system when you realize that out of the 3 R's only one begins with an R.

Apartheid education, rarely mentioned in the press or openly confronted even among once-progressive educators, is alive and well and rapidly increasing now in the United States.

Schooling is what happens inside the wall of the school, some of which is educational. Education happens everywhere, and it happens from the moment a child is born-some say before-until it dies.

Schools should be the most beautiful place in every town and village-so beautiful that the punishment for undutiful children should be barred from going to school the following day.

When you take the free will out of education, that turns it into schooling.

If you wanted to create an education environment that was directly opposed to what the brain was good at doing, you would probably design something like a classroom.

Schooling deprived of religious insights is wretched education.

My education was interrupted only by my schooling.

Waste of time is the leading feature of our present education. Not only are we taught a mass of rubbish, but what is not rubbish is taught so as to make us waste over it as much time as possible.

I'm forming a charitable institution for education.

The financial education taught in schools is funded and taught by the big banks and corporations. It's like having the cat train the mice.

My chief job is to constantly stir or rekindle the curiosity of people that gets driven out by bureaucracy and formal schooling systems.

In school, you are given the lesson first. On the street, you're given the mistake first and then it's up to you to find the lesson, if you ever find it.

Education helps you earn more. But not many schoolteachers can prove it.

I want to make sure that all kids get a good education and enjoy what they learn

There's only one thing that can kill the movies, and that's education.

Without education, confidence does not come.

When I look at 55 percent of our black men dropping out of school, how bad off are we going to be when we need some lawyers?

School is about who you know, but I think it's a form of brainwashing. I learnt to read and write and that was enough.

Going to school is not the same as going shopping. Parents should not be burdened with locating a suitable school for their child. They should be able to take their child to the neighborhood public school as a matter of course and expect that it has well-educated teachers and a sound educational program.