Quoted in Stanley Kubrick at Look Magazine (2013) by Phillipe Mather, p. 46
Context: I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grades, fear of not staying with your class, etc. Interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear explosion to a firecracker.
John Taylor Gatto (1935–2018) American teacher, book author
Weapons of Mass Instruction: A Schoolteacher's Journey Through the Dark World of Compulsory Schooling (2008)
Source: Weapons of Mass Instruction: A Schoolteacher's Journey Through the Dark World of Compulsory Schooling, New Society Publishers (2013) p. xxii
“The basic mistake people make is to think that happiness is the goal!”
François Lelord book Hector and the Search for Happiness
Source: Hector and the Search for Happiness
“The lessons one learns at school are not always the ones the school thinks it's teaching.”
Salman Rushdie book Joseph Anton: A Memoir
Source: Joseph Anton: A Memoir
“Life, I've learned, is never fair. If they teach anything in schools, that should be it.”
Nicholas Sparks (1965) American writer and novelist
“I don’t think parents should be telling schools what they should teach.”
Terry McAuliffe (1957) American businessman and politician
Source: Gubernatorial Debate Between Terry McAuliffe and Glenn Youngkin in Alexandria, Virginia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiH2ipjtVxw (Sept. 28, 2021)
“We made a mistake lowering the voting age to 18. I think it happened basically out of guilt.”
Chris Shays (1945) American politician
George Long (1800–1879) English classical scholar
An Old Man's Thoughts on Many Things, Of Education I
Malala Yousafzai (1997) Pakistani children's education activist
Statements in PBS interview with Margaret Warner (October 11, 2013)
Frank Stella (1936) American artist
Source: Quotes, 1960 - 1970, Questions to Stella and Judd' - September 1966, p. 117
