The creative person is usually rebellious. He or she is the survivor of a trauma called education.
Anonymous
#458
#453
It is by doing things that need to be learned in order to be done, that you learn them.
Aristotle
#391
Is it surprising that prisons resemble factories, schools, barracks, hospitals, which all resemble prisons?
Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish
#363
Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college.
Lillian Smith
#352
Putting on the spectacles of science in expectation of finding an answer to everything looked at signifies inner blindness.
J. Frank Dobie
#351
If sociologists ought not express their personal values in the academic setting, how then are students to be safeguarded against the unwitting influence of these values which shape the sociologist’s selection of problems, his preferences for certain hypotheses or conceptual schemes, and his neglect of others.
Alvin W. Gouldner, Anti-Minotaur
#349
Listen to everyone, read everything, believe nothing unless you can prove it in your own research.
William Cooper
#313
This crippling of individuals I consider the worst evil of capitalism. (…) An exaggerated competitive attitude is inculcated into the student, who is trained to worship acquisitive success as a preparation for his future career. I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy.
Albert Einstein
#293
Probably all education is but two things: first, the parrying of the ignorant children’s impetuous assault on the truth, and second, the gentle, imperceptible, step-by-step initiation of the humiliated children into the Lie.
Franz Kafka
#246
Since every effort in our educational life seems to be directed toward making of the child a being foreign to itself, it must of necessity produce individuals foreign to one another, and in everlasting antagonism with each other.
Emma Goldman
