School System Quotes

“Creativity is as important as literacy”
― Ken Robinson

“People don't want children to know what they need to know. They want their kids to know what they ought to need to know. If you're a teacher you're in a constant battle with mildly deluded adults who think the world will get better if you imagine it is better. You want to teach about sex? Fine, but only when they're old enough to do it. You want to talk politics? Sure, but nothing modern. Religion? So long as you don't actually think about it. Otherwise some furious mob will come to your house and burn you for a witch.”
― Nick Harkaway, The Gone-Away World

“Grades really cover up failure to teach. A bad instructor can go through an entire quarter leaving absolutely nothing memorable in the minds of his class, curve out the scores on an irrelevant test, and leave the impression that some have learned and some have not. But if the grades are removed the class is forced to wonder each day what it’s really learning. The questions, What’s being taught? What’s the goal? How do the lectures and assignments accomplish the goal? become ominous. The removal of grades exposes a huge and frightening vacuum.”
― Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

“(...) about one of his schools he said, "I would make the following criticisms. First, too much attention to marks. Second, too much religion. Third, no time for me to develop my own interests. Fourth, group discipline may be imposed unfairly".”
― John Gunther, Death Be Not Proud

“It is easier to land a man on the moon than to change the school system.”
― M.Z.Riffi - The Queen of Granada

“Most school systems reward repeating the right answers to known problems, but doesn’t that simply teach learners to rely on questions that have clearly derivable answers?”
― Roger Spitz, The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume III - Beta Your Life: Existence in a Disruptive World

“If we want to survive this economic collapse, new mandatory school subjects should be eCommerce, Chinese, spirituality and aesthetics.”
― Robin Sacredfire

“What shapes the best in us dies when the best education dies! The best in us shall always be undermined when they that are responsible for shaping the best in us are always undermined!

I stand for a different education: a different education where students will not just learn books but life!

I stand for a different education: a different education where students will not just learn moral principles, but they shall be living examples of moral principles.

I stand for a different education: a different education where students don’t just understand what they learn, but practice what they learn with understanding!

I stand for a different education: a different education where students will not just learn about people of different beliefs, culture and backgrounds, but how to live with people who don’t share common perspective with them and know how to show their emotions of bitterness and misunderstanding rightly!

I stand for a different education: a different education where students will be perfect ambassadors’ of God on earth and live their daily lives with all due diligence!

I stand for a different education: a different education where students will understand why we all breathe the same air, sleep and wake up each day in the same manner to continue the journey of life!

I stand for a different education: a different education where students will learn with inspiration even in their desperations!

I stand for a different education: a different education where teachers are seen as true epitome of education!

I stand for a different education: a different education in which the value of the teacher is well understood and the teacher is well valued as a treasure!

I stand for a different education: a different education where students will not just learn, but they will reproduce great and noble things with what they learn!

I stand for a different education: a different education where students will understand the real meaning of integrity and responsibility and with true courage and humility be that as such!

I stand for a different education: a different education where education means creativity!

Education is the spine of every nation! The better the education, the better the nation! The mediocre the education, the mediocre the nation! A good nation is good because of how education has shaped the perspective and understanding of the populace! A nation that does not know where it is heading towards must ask the machine that produces the populace who drive the nation: education! Until we fix our education, we shall always have a wrong education and we shall always see a wrong nation!”
― Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

“You are yet to catch up with the real world if you've never studied any concepts outside the school syllabus or read any books beside the texts books school forced you to read. Most people are just programmed not educated”
― Nicky Verd

“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

“To not know what to do during the vacations is just a proof that society and the school system has stolen your life from you.”
― Sunday Adelaja, How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?

“When you run for your life, you will become the one deciding how you use your time. You will be the one deciding that you are not going to pour out your life anymore. You will no longer allow the school system or the work system to decide what you do with your time.”
― Sunday Adelaja, How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?

“A creative mind is quite extended in solo”
― Ronak Naneriya

“I’m determined to prove not only to him, but to everyone—that discipline is not more important than care.”
― Alex Dalton, A View From The Mountain

“A school’s purpose wasn’t to enlighten anybody or to make them into a critical thinker. Schools existed only to train people for jobs, dulling their ability for critical thinking in the process, so that they could readily accept authority and mindless routine. In fact, when I read about the history of the school system that was commonly used in the world, I discovered that it came from the Middle Ages and was originally designed to teach people religion. And what did religious people do? They accepted absurd ideas without questioning. The same system that was designed to brainwash them—full of rote learning, non-questioning, conformity, and punishment—was the same one that was still being used today. Why? Because it worked. At least most of the time. For some reason, it hadn’t worked on me.”
― Keijo Kangur, The Nihilist

“I am pain stricken to say that, various “educational” institutions have adopted the medieval doctrine "fear of the lord is the beginning of wisdom" as their motto. Let me tell you this, fear of the Lord, Santa Claus, Krishna, Thor, Hulk or any other imaginary being brings merely the illusion of wisdom, not wisdom. And illusion of wisdom is a billion times more harmful than lack of wisdom.”
― Abhijit Naskar, I Am The Thread: My Mission

“Observation is finer than information”
― Ronak Naneriya

“The fact is, we need prisons that are more like schools, and schools that are less like prisons. But for this to happen, the teachers also need freedom.”
― Salvatore Striano, La tempesta di Sasà

“Turn one school from a robot factory into a cradle of heroes, and the very face of education on earth will change.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Every Generation Needs Caretakers: The Gospel of Patriotism

“Money can buy hundreds of certificates, yet money cannot buy an ounce of education.”
― John Joclebs Bassey, Night of a Thousand Thoughts

“Schools who say they're zero tolerance about bullies turning around to give said bullies badges that make them arbiters of good behaviour, that's hard. It's hypocritical. It scrambles my brain when I try to understand it.”
― Elle McNicoll, Keedie

“The purchasing of technology is so decentralized (especially in a large district like mine), that there are often purchases made in haste that neglect to cross-reference the preexistent resources.”
― Fröderick Frankensteen, System Failure: A First-Hand Account From The Trenches Of A Revolving Door School District

“70% of schoolteachers teach only in their spare time, or when they are in the mood.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Before You Doubt Yourself: Pep Talks and other Crucial Discussions

“I've just about stopped using the computer in class, because the kids are so distracted by the computers themselves," Ms. Valentine concludes. "I think it's the corporate world manipulating the public school system. It's a big show.”
― Clifford Stoll, High-Tech Heretic: Reflections of a Computer Contrarian

“Real education starts with uneducation. Once you understand this, you'll understand education.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yarasistan: My Wounds, My Crown

“School authority convinces the average youth that education can only be attained in an enclosed room, but the learned knows that traveling itself is part of education.”
― John Joclebs Bassey, Night of a Thousand Thoughts

“Unschooling challenges the established paradigms of education and presents an alternative that honors and nurtures the unique strengths and interests of each individual. By recognizing the harmony concealed within the kaleidoscope of unschooling, we unlock its transformative potential and grant individuals the power to shape their educational journeys with intention and purpose.”
― Kytka Hilmar-Jezek, The Smartest Kids: Don't Go to School

“So, I do one bad thing and it wipes out all of the terrible things they did before? Things that went unpunished? Bullying isn't being a bit mean at one time to someone who is always mean, Mr. McDonough. That's not what bullying means.”
― Elle McNicoll, Keedie

“It's always a bully playing the victim and their target being forced back into a situation that makes them feel trapped. In danger. Embarrassed and ashamed for even speaking out in the first place.”
― Elle McNicoll, Keedie

“A nation where private schools produce more leaders than public schools has failed in education.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Humanitarian Dictator