“ It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“ Do not give them a candle to light the way, teach them how to make fire instead. That is the meaning of enlightenment. Kamand Kojouri
“ You are more likely to find three TVs inside a randomly selected house than you are to find a single book that is or was not read to pass an exam, to please God, or to be a better cook. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“ It isn't a coincidence that governments everywhere want to educate children. Government education, in turn, is supposed to be evidence of the state's goodness and its concern for our well-being. The r… Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.
“ No teacher has the right to cure a child of making noises on a drum. The only curing that should be practiced is the curing of unhappiness. A.S. Neill
“ Property taxes' rank right up there with 'income taxes' in terms of immorality and destructiveness. Where 'income taxes' are simply slavery using different words, 'property taxes' are just a Mafia tur… Larken Rose
“ Education is a system designed to make you feel inferior, yet they encourage you to accept it in order to be superior Isiphile Petse
“ If you feed a child, you strengthen him for a day; if you educate him, you strengthen him for a lifetime. Matshona Dhliwayo
“ There is no such source and cause of strife, quarrel, fights, malignant opposition, persecution, and war, and all evil in the state, as religion. Let it once enter into our civil affairs, our governme… Supreme Court of Wisconsin
“ 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
“ Schooling is a manufacturing process whereby the raw material called curious boys is turned into products called obedient men. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“ The problems on campus life today are not about free speech. They are about how the students have absolutely nothing to do with their lives but sit and listen to lectures, find the best parties to att… Jeffrey Tucker
“ Considering he was neither priest nor scholar, the young man gave sensible, thoughtful replies -- the more so, perhaps, for being untrained, for he had not learned what he should believe or should not… Iain Pears
“ My schooling not only failed to teach me what it professed to be teaching, but prevented me from being educated to an extent which infuriates me when I think of all I might have learned at home by mys… George Bernard Shaw
“ To stimulate life, leaving it free, however, to unfold itself--that is the first duty of the educator. Maria Montessori
“ I feel ashamed that so many of us cannot imagine a better way to do things than locking children up all day in cells instead of letting them grow up knowing their families, mingling with the world, as… John Taylor Gatto
“ 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
