“When you take the free will out of education, that turns it into schooling.”
John Taylor Gatto (1935–2018) American teacher, book author
Of Men and Women (1941), Ch. 4
“When you take the free will out of education, that turns it into schooling.”
John Taylor Gatto (1935–2018) American teacher, book author
Dorothy Thompson (1893–1961) American journalist and radio broadcaster
Source: "Let the Record Speak" 1939, p. 359 (newspaper column: “The Revolution of Nihilism,” May 8, 1939)
“All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.”
Walter Scott (1771–1832) Scottish historical novelist, playwright, and poet
Letter to J. G. Lockhart (c. 16 June 1830), in H. J. C. Grierson (ed.), Letters of Sir Walter Scott, Vol. II (1936), as reported in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (1999), p. 652
“You educate a man; you educate a Man. You educate a woman; you educate a Generation. ”
Brigham Young (1801–1877) Latter Day Saint movement leader
“The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.”
Sydney J. Harris (1917–1986) American journalist
Richard Jeni (1957–2007) American comedian
A Big, Steaming Pile Of Me
“… a severe woman with a patient but unprevaricating gaze, who turned out to be Indira Gandhi.”
Amit Chaudhuri (1962) contemporary Indian-English novelist
The Immortals (2009)
Henry Adams (1838–1918) journalist, historian, academic, novelist
The Education of Henry Adams (1907)