“ For those of you who may be homeschooled: high school is that four-year asylum where they put teenagers because we have no idea what else to do with them. Anthony M. Esolen
“ There is nothing to be gained by pretending that academic involvement is necessary, or even always desirable, in the quest for truth and knowledge. Christopher Langan
“ This time Elizabeth Ann didn't answer, because she herself didn't know what the matter was. But I do, and I'll tell you. The matter was that never before had she known what she was doing in school. Sh… Dorothy Canfield Fisher
“ Any child who can spend an hour or two a day, or more if he wants, with adults that he likes, who are interested in the world and like to talk about it, will on most days learn far more from their tal… John Holt
“ Regarding school vs. homeschoolIf it works, send them there!If it doesn't, don't import it. Joyce Herzog
“ School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is. Ivan Illich
“ The plain fact is that education is itself a form of propaganda - a deliberate scheme to outfit the pupil, not with the capacity to weigh ideas, but with a simple appetite for gulping ideas ready-made… H.L. Mencken
“ It is hard not to feel that there must be something very wrong with much of what we do in school, if we feel the need to worry so much about what many people call 'motivation'. A child has no stronger… John Holt
“ The function of a child is to live his/her own life, not the life that his/her anxious parents think he/she should live, nor a life according to the purpose of the educators who thinks they knows best A.S. Neill
“ My best memory of school was probably leaving school. Because I hated that fucking place. Troye Sivan
“ School is about learning to wait your turn, however long it takes to come, if ever. And how to submit with a show of enthusiasm to the judgment of strangers, even if they are wrong, even if your enthu… John Taylor Gatto
“ An eternal question about children is, how should we educate them? Politicians and educators consider more school days in a year, more science and math, the use of computers and other technology in th… Thomas Moore
“ You will not reap the fruit of individuality in your children if you clone their education. Marilyn Howshall
“ My mother, who taught me how to read and write and home-schooled me for the first 12 years of my life, whose presence shaped me as much as her absence did, who imbibed in me the values of empathy and… Sharad Vivek Sagar
“ Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding. Ezra Pound
“ Far 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
“ There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent. Mahatma Gandhi
