Education

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Education - compulsory schooling, compulsory learning - is a tyranny and a crime against the human mind and spirit. Let us escape it who can, any way they can.
 John Holt
 

The public school system; Usually a twelve year sentence of mind control, crushing creativity, smashing individualism, encouraging collectivism and compromise, destroying the exercise of intellectual inquiry, twisting it instead into meek subservience to authority.
 Walter Karp
 

You send your child to the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys who educate him.
 Ralph W Emerson
 Conduct of Life, 1860

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
 B F Skinner
 1964

The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse.
 Ed Koch
 graduation speech,

Schools are for schooling, not social engineering.
 Brian Cox
 Black Paper, 1975

The aim of education is the knowledge not of facts but of values.
 Wm Ralph Inge
 1917

To live for a time close to great minds is the best kind of education.
 John Buchan
 Memory Hold-the-Door, 1940

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
 Wm Butler Yeats
 

Only the educated are free.
 Epictetus
 

All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
 Sir Walter Scott
 

The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all: it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality.
 H L Mencken
 

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
 Robert Frost
 1960

The dread of beatings! Dread of being late! And, greatest dread of all, the dread of games!
 John Betjeman
 Summoned by Bells, 1960

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
 Thomas Carlyle
 

Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.
 Euripides
 -407

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
 Bertrand Russell
 

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