{"quotes":[{"text":"Half of teachers leave the profession within their first four years, and kids with behaviour challenges and their parents are cited as one of the major reasons.","author":"Ross W. Greene","tags":["behavior","lost-at-school","parents","parents-responsibility","schooling","teachers"],"id":2414,"author_id":"Ross+W.+Greene"},{"text":"A person who says “every person has a right to a decent education” may not actually mean “people should be robbed to support bad schools” or “all children should be forced into a prison-like building for 12 years.","author":"Jeffrey Tucker","tags":["anarchy","freedom","indoctrination","liberty","schooling","state-schools","statism","taxation","theft","voluntaryism"],"id":9524,"author_id":"Jeffrey+Tucker"},{"text":"Yet that is considered an excellent school, and I dare say it would be if the benighted lady did not think it necessary to cram her pupils like Thanksgiving turkeys, instead of feeding them in a natural and wholesome way. It is the fault with most American schools, and the poor little heads will go on aching till we learn better.","author":"Louisa May Alcott","tags":["american","aunt-hill","doctor-alec","dr-alec","eight-cousins","school","schooling","uncle-alec"],"id":11150,"author_id":"Louisa+May+Alcott"},{"text":"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 government soon would be destroyed. Let it once enter our common schools, they would be destroyed. Those who made our Constitution saw this, and used the most apt and comprehensive language in it to prevent such a catast.","author":"Supreme Court of Wisconsin","tags":["catastrophe","constitution","constitutional","destruction","education","intolerance","law","malignant","quarrel","schooling","schools","science","separation-of-church-and-state","strife"],"id":14671,"author_id":"Supreme+Court+of+Wisconsin"},{"text":"Paying the high cost of education is better than paying the high price of ignorance.","author":"Matshona Dhliwayo","tags":["education","enlightenment","folly","ignorance","knowledge","learning","light","light","philosophy","read","reading","school","schooling","student","university","wisdom","wisdom"],"id":14749,"author_id":"Matshona+Dhliwayo"},{"text":"We, Equality 7-2521, were not happy in those year in the Home of the Students. It was not that the learning was too hard for us. It was that the learning was too easy. This is a great sin, to be born with a head which is too quick. It is not good to be different from our brothers, but it is evil to be superior to them. The Teachers told us so, and they frowned when they looked at us.","author":"Ayn Rand","tags":["happiness","individuality","intelligence","objectivism","schooling","students","teachers"],"id":39941,"author_id":"Ayn+Rand"},{"text":"As long as high schools strive to list the number of Ivy League schools their graduates attend and teachers pile on work without being trained to identify stress-related symptoms, I fear for our children’s health. I am not mollified by the alums of my daughter’s school who return to tell everyone that the rigor of high school prepared them for college, making their first year easier than they’d anticipated.If they make it that far.","author":"Candy Schulman","tags":["college","creativity","demands","depression","education","expectations","health","pressure","reform","sad-truth","school","schooling","society","standardized-testing","stress","suicide","testing","universities","university","work"],"id":50725,"author_id":"Candy+Schulman"},{"text":"I'm sorry to say that the subject I most disliked was mathematics. I have thought about it. I think the reason was that mathematics leaves no room for argument. If you made a mistake, that was all there was to it.","author":"Malcolm X","tags":["argument","mathematics","schooling"],"id":61809,"author_id":"Malcolm+X"},{"text":"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 attend, and otherwise discover first-world problems to stew about and protest. That's the root of the problem. This is not a commercial environment where people are incentivized to find value in each other. Campuses have become completely artificial 4-year holding tanks for infantilized kids with zero experience in actual life in which people find ways to get along. These students are not serving each other in a market exchange, and very few have worked at day in their lives, so their default is to find some offense and protest. It's all they've been taught to do and all they know how to do. Idle hands and parents' money = trouble.","author":"Jeffrey Tucker","tags":["anarcho-capitalism","anarchy","ancap","economics","education","family","free","freedom","government","higher","idiocracy","laissez-faire","libertarian","liberty","markets","pupils","school","schooling","society","state","statism","students","trade","university","voluntaryism","youth"],"id":62956,"author_id":"Jeffrey+Tucker"},{"text":"The student’s biggest problem was a slave mentality which had been built into him by years of carrot-and- whip grading, a mule mentality which said, 'If you don’t whip me, I won’t work.' He didn’t get whipped. He didn’t work. And the cart of civilization, which he supposedly was being trained to pull, was just going to have to creak along a little slower without him. This is a tragedy, however, only if you presume that the cart of civilization, 'the system,' is pulled by mules. This is a common, vocational, 'location' point of view, but it’s not the Church attitude. The Church attitude is that civilization, or 'the system' or 'society' or whatever you want to call it, is best served not by mules but by free men. The purpose of abolishing grades and degrees is not to punish mules or to get rid of them but to provide an environment in which that mule can turn into a free man.","author":"Robert M. Pirsig","tags":["education","free-man","free-will","mentality","schooling","status-quo","students"],"id":69834,"author_id":"Robert+M.+Pirsig"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":65,"pages":7,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}