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Education is a system of imposed ignorance.

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Noam ChomskyManufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind. Therefore do not use compulsio...

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An eternal question about children is, how should we educate them? Politicians and educators conside...

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Unless education promotes character making, unless it helps men to be more moral, more just to their...

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I suppose it is because nearly all children go to school nowadays and have things arranged for them ...

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Many of our elected officials have virtually handed the keys to our schools over to corporate intere...

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Alfie KohnThe Schools Our Children Deserve: Moving Beyond Traditional Classrooms and "Tougher Standards"

The home is the first and most effective place to learn the lessons of life: truth, honor, virtue, s...

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Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing. The rest is mere sheep herdi...

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It is the mark of a truly educated man to know what not to read.

The plain fact is that education is itself a form of propaganda - a deliberate scheme to outfit the ...

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School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is.

Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.

Education does not mean teaching people what they do not know. It means teaching them to behave as t...

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The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursing his ...

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Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn all that we have been able to teach them of charity, ...

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There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent.