Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2025-03-31 Mar 31, 2025Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.~ Edmund BurkeLegal plunder can be committed in an infinite number of ways; hence, there are an infinite number of plans for organizing it: tariffs, protection, bonuses, subsidies, incentives, the progressive income tax, free education, the right to employment, the right to profit, the right to wages, the right to relief, the right to the tools of production, interest free credit, etc., etc. And it the aggregate of all these plans, in respect to what they have in common, legal plunder, that goes under the name of socialism.~ Frederic BastiatRespect for the truth is an acquired taste.~ Mark Van Doren Mar 28, 2025I don't want my children fed or clothed by the state, but if I had to choose, I would prefer that to their being educated by the state.~ Max Victor BelzFar from failing in its intended task, our educational system is in fact succeeding magnificently, because its aim is to keep the American people thoughtless enough to go on supporting the system.~ Richard Mitchell Mar 27, 2025...[A] fool cannot be protected from his folly. If you attempt to do so, you will not only arouse his animosity but also you will be attempting to deprive him of whatever benefit he is capable of deriving from experience. Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.~ Robert A. Heinlein Mar 26, 2025Together we have come to realize that for most men the right to learn is curtailed by the obligation to attend school.~ Ivan IllichThe 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 GattoI know very well that because I am unlettered some presumptuous people will think they have the right to criticize me, saying that I am an uncultured man. What stupid fools! Do they not know that I could reply to them as Marius did to the Roman patricians: "Do those who pride themselves on the works of other men claim to challenge mine?~ Leonardo da Vinci Mar 25, 2025Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.~ PlatoNo one is more truly helpless, more completely a victim, than he who can neither choose nor change nor escape his protectors.~ John HoltEducation is unique among consumer products -- when it fails to work as advertised, it's the customer that gets labelled as defective.~ Kevin Killion Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print