Prison for the crime of puberty -- that was how secondary school had seemed.
David BrinTags: education school puberty teenage
Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.
Margaret MeadTags: education children judgement reasoning mentoring
Ignorance is ultimately the worst enemy of a people who want to be free.
Jonathan HennesseyTags: education freedom ignorance
An educator should consider that he has failed in his job if he has not succeeded in instilling some trace of a divine dissatisfaction with our miserable social environment.
Anthony StandenTags: education activism conscience awareness social-justice conciousness social-conscience
He said, speaking more to himself than to me: 'It was knowledge I sought. Knowledge which is clean and pure, far above the cheating and deceiving in which most men spend their lives.'
And do you not find it,' I asked, 'this knowledge which you prize?'
In part,' he said. 'I find other things, too. Things I do not desire but must accept. There is still cheating and deceiving.
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Drop out of school before your mind rots from exposure to our mediocre educational system. Forget about the Senior Prom and go to the library and educate yourself if you've got any guts. Some of you like Pep rallies and plastic robots who tell you what to read.
Frank ZappaTags: education self-education high-school
Like Semmering Academy, the Grove School was a Gothic pile of bricks run by 1950s-era chalk drones, which maintained its cultural viability by perpetuating a weirdly seductive anxiety throughout its community. Mary herself was a victim of the seduction; despite the trying and repetitive emotional requirements of her job, she remained eternally fascinated by the wicker-thin girls and their wicker-thin mothers, all of them favoring dark wool skirts and macintoshes and unreadably far-away expressions; if she squinted, they could have emerged intact from any of the last seven decades.
Heidi JulavitsWhat is the most important thing one learns in school? Self-esteem, support, and friendship.
Terry Tempest WilliamsTags: education school lessons
Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.
Ayn RandTags: education power tyranny corruption
My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.
Dylan ThomasTags: reading liberty education time curiosity
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