“When you take the free will out of education, that turns it into schooling.”
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American teacher, book author 1935–2018Related quotes
Frank Chodorov
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Pearl S. Buck
(1892–1973) American writer
Of Men and Women (1941), Ch. 4
“What’s the use of a high school education if you can’t recall it when needed later on?”
Source: Mission of Gravity (1954), Chapter 14
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“We forget that education is not school and school is not education.”
Christian Canlubo
(2002) Filipino Internet Entrepreneur
"Learning is something we have to do every day, so if you tell me that I should finish my studies then you are saying that I am going to end my life."
Christian Canlubo answered to a person who tell him that he should finished his learning to be a successful person.
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Andrei Sakharov
(1921–1989) Soviet nuclear physicist and human rights activist
Progress, Coexistence and Intellectual Freedom (1968), Dangers, The Threat to Intellectual Freedom
Context: A system of education under government control, separation of school and church, universal free education — all these are great achievements of social progress. But everything has a reverse side. In this case it is excessive standardization, extending to the teaching process itself, to the curriculum, especially in literature, history, civics, geography, and to the system of examinations.
One cannot but see a danger in excessive reference to authority and in the limitation of discussion and intellectual boldness at an age when personal convictions are beginning to be formed. In the old China, the systems of examinations for official positions led to mental stagnation and to the canonizing of the reactionary aspects of Confucianism. It is highly undesirable to have anything like that in a modern society.