“ A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state. Isabel Paterson
“ Shifting the frame only slightly, the choice of a theory from among the range of always ideologically founded theories is itself necessarily ideologically motivated. Positioning is unavoidable; positi… Gunther Kress
“ The (nation) state's concern had been the development of citizens - social subjects whose identity was shaped by the goals of the state - and the preparation of a labour force serving the needs of a n… Gunther Kress
“ Research highlights a striking link between between encouraging child-raising and class. Half of working-class parents' interactions with their 12-18 month-olds were affirming, versus 80% among the af… Betty Hart
“ I don't care what kind of grades they give you at Delcroix. I wanted you to go there so you'd have a chance to learn how to use your gifts, and be confident enough to fight for what you believe in. Inara Scott
“ A Puritan twist in our nature makes us think that anything good for us must be twice as good if it's hard to swallow. Learning Greek and Latin used to play the role of character builder, since they we… Ellen Kaplan
“ Give a man a hoe and he is something to exploit. Give him a book and he is something to fear. Eric Burns
“ Not long after the book came out I found myself being driven to a meetingby a professor of electrical engineering in the graduate school I of MIT. He said that after reading the book he realized that… John Holt
“ The whole tendency of modern life is towards scientific planning and organisation, central control, standardisation, and specialisation. If this tendency was left to work itself out to its extreme con… Christopher Henry Dawson
“ If my duty to my parents is a superstition, then so is my duty to posterity. If justice is a superstition, then so is my duty to my country or my race. If the pursuit of scientific knowledge is a real… C.S. Lewis
“ The difference between the old and the new education being) in a word, the old was a kind of propagation - men transmitting manhood to men; the new is merely propaganda. C.S. Lewis
“ They visited him in saris, clumping gracelessly through red mud and long grass ... and introduced themselves as Mrs. Pillai, Mrs. Eapen and Mrs. Rajagopalan. Velutha introduced himself and his paralyz… Arundhati Roy
“ He never reckoned much to schooling and that. He said you could learn most what was worth knowing from keeping your eyes and ears peeled. Best way of learning, he always said, was doing. Michael Morpurgo
“ To understand life is to understand ourselves, and that is both the beginning and the end of education. Jiddu Krishnamurti
“ In so many ways we are still in the dark ages, but there is light appearing over the horizon of choice and consciousness. Bryant McGill
“ Thus did I receive, through the singing of these various hymns and the moral education that accompanied them, not only a religious, but a political schooling of sorts. For though the intertwining of m… Jean Said Makdisi
“ You learn almost as much about a thinker from what he reads—in particular, what he likes and what he disdains—as from what he writes himself. Rodney Ulyate
