“ …it’s not just learning that’s important. It’s learning what to do with what you learn and learning why you learn things that matters. Norton Juster
“ Throwing herself into learning helped Miri ignore the painful chill of solitude around her. Shannon Hale
“ To be changed by ideas was pure pleasure. But to learn ideas that ran counter to values and beliefs learned at home was to place oneself at risk, to enter the danger zone. Home was the place where I w… Bell Hooks
“ School has become the world religion of a modernized proletariat, and makes futile promises of salvation to the poor of the technological age. Ivan Illich
“ Part of the art of teaching is the ability to rearrange the world for students - to force them to see things in a new way. i've known too many stupid intellectuals to believe that education and wisdom… Sunny Decker
“ Since a time has come, Mademoiselle, when the severe laws of men no longer prevent women from applying themselves to the sciences and other disciplines, it seems to me that those of us who can should… Louise Labé
“ It is always a much easier task to educate uneducated people than to re-educate the mis-educated. Herbert M. Shelton
“ I must judge for myself, but how can I judge, how can any man judge, unless his mind has been opened and enlarged by reading. John Adams
“ If anyone says that the best life of all is to sail the sea, and then adds that I must not sail upon a sea where shipwrecks are a common occurrence and there are often sudden storms that sweep the hel… Seneca
“ A man, whilst he is dreaming, believes in his dream; he is undeceived only when he is awakened from his slumber. Mahatma Gandhi
“ She had observed that the more education they got, the less they could do. Their father had gone to a one-room schoolhouse through the eighth grade and he could do anything. Flannery O'Connor
“ You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too. No, I think there was too rigid a pattern. You came out of an education and are supposed to know your voc… Anais Nin
“ [Homeschooling]...recipe for genius: More of family and less of school, more of parents and less of peers, more creative freedom and less formal lessons. Raymond S. Moore
“ Most learning is not the result of instruction. It is rather the result of unhampered participation in a meaningful setting. Most people learn best by being "with it," yet school makes them identify t… Ivan Illich
“ We must be careful not to discourage our twelve-year-olds by making them waste the best years of their lives preparing for examinations. Freeman Dyson
“ Everything can be explained to the people, on the single condition that you want them to understand. Frantz Fanon
