Education (n.) is, far from creating independent thinkers, historically responsible for playing an institutional role in a system of control and coercion in which you are socialized in ways that support the power structure, which, in turn, rewards you immensely.
Education (n.) is a system of imposed ignorance.
Education (n.) is not just about learning how a mosquito flies in the rain, it's about learning how to be creative and why it's exciting to learn things and create things and make up new things.
Education (n.) is really aimed at helping students get to the point
Education (n.) should be like laying out a string the student follows in his own way; what matters is not what the course covers but what the student discovers.
Education (n.) is an elaborate filter, starting in kindergarten, that weeds out the too independent and the insufficiently submissive.
Education (n.) is largely the internalizing of what it is not proper to say, and then what it is not proper to think.
Education (n.) done properly leaves you unable to understand certain facts even when they are right in front of your eyes.
Education (n.) of the real kind gets people thinking for themselves; regurgitating "Good Books" turns them into automata and is its opposite — which is why its champions like it.
Education (n.) at heart fosters the ability to inquire and create; drilling for tests does not advance it and probably does harm.
Education (n.) can only lay down the thread along which a mind develops by itself; even a language cannot be taught, only awakened.
Education (n.) should not pour knowledge into the mind like water into a vessel but kindle it, as a tree's own vigor ripens its fruit.
Education (n.) should give a sense of the value of things other than domination, Russell said, and make wise citizens of a free community.
Education (n.) is "the indoctrination of the young" in the liberal elite's own phrase — and must be disciplined if the public grows restless.
Education (n.) can either pour water into a leaky vessel or lay down a thread that each student follows in their own way, learning to inquire and create.
Education (n.) belonged, for the Trilateral Commission, among the institutions responsible for the indoctrination of the young — schools, universities and churches.