Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2008-05-29 May 29, 2008What is the task of higher education? To make a man into a machine. What are the means employed? He is taught how to suffer being bored.~ Friedrich NietzscheIs it not ironical that in a planned society of controlled workers given compulsory assignments, where religious expression is suppressed, the press controlled, and all media of communication censored, where a puppet government is encouraged but denied any real authority, where great attention is given to efficiency and character reports, and attendance at cultural assemblies is mandatory, where it is avowed that all will be administered to each according to his needs and performance required from each according to his abilities, and where those who flee are tracked down, returned, and punished for trying to escape - in short in the milieu of the typical large American secondary school - we attempt to teach 'the democratic system'?~ Royce Van NormanThere are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison.~ William Glasser May 28, 2008Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college.~ Lillian SmithMy grandmother wanted me to have an education, so she kept me out of school.~ Margaret MeadI have never let my schooling interfere with my education.~ Mark Twain May 27, 2008Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without education. Education enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.~ Albert Edward WigginIf you suppose that good intentions justify intruding on the lives and properties of your fellow citizens: Do you appreciate being the target of somebody else's good intentions, or haven't you had that particular dubious pleasure yet?~ Cat FarmerWe 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 May 26, 2008Government schooling is the most radical adventure in history. It kills the family by monopolizing the best times of childhood and by teaching disrespect for home and parents....~ John Taylor GattoThe shocking possibility that dumb people don’t exist in sufficient numbers to warrant the millions of careers devoted to tending them will seem incredible to you. Yet that is my central proposition: the mass dumbness which justifies official schooling first had to be dreamed of; it isn’t real.~ John Taylor GattoWho besides a degraded rabble would voluntarily present itself to be graded and classified like meat? No wonder school is compulsory.~ John Taylor Gatto May 23, 2008[T]he child should be taught to consider his instructor... superior to the parent in point of authority.... The vulgar impression that parents have a legal right to dictate to teachers is entirely erroneous.... Parents have no remedy as against the teacher.~ John SwettOur schools are, in a sense, factories, in which the raw products (children) are to be shaped and fashioned into products to meet the various demands of life. The specifications for manufacturing come from the demands of twentieth-century civilization, and it is the business of the school to build its pupils according to the specifications laid down.~ Ellwood P. CubberleyWe who are engaged in the sacred cause of education are entitled to look upon all parents as having given hostages to our cause.~ Horace Mann Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print