Problems In School Quotes

• Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds.

  Plato

  Education, Children, Teaching

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• It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Sad, Education

  "Conducting Meaningful Interpretation: A Field Guide for Success". Book by Alan E. Wilkinson, p. 154, 2006.

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• I think schools generally do an effective and terribly damaging job of teaching children to be infantile, dependent, intellectually dishonest, passive and disrespectful to their own developmental capacities.

  Seymour Papert

  Jobs, Children, Teaching

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• Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Education, Learning

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• The whole educational and professional training system is a very elaborate filter, which just weeds out people who are too independent, and who think for themselves, and who don't know how to be submissive, and so on -- because they're dysfunctional to the institutions.

  Noam Chomsky

  Weed, Educational, Learning

  Noam Chomsky (2013). “Understanding Power: The Indispensible Chomsky”, p.111, The New Press

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• Education itself is a putting off, a postponement; we are told to work hard to get good results. Why? So we can get a good job. What is a good job? One that pays well. Oh. And that's it? All this suffering, merely so that we can earn a lot of money, which, even if we manage it, will not solve our problems anyway? It's a tragically limited idea of what life is all about.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Jobs, Hard Work, Learning

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• Society highly values its normal man. It educates children to lose themselves and to become absurd, and thus to be normal.

  R. D. Laing

  Children, Men, Normal

  R.D Laing (1967). “The Politics of Experience”

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• I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.

  Anne Sullivan Macy

  Education, Children, Learning

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• Nothing enrages me more than when people criticize my criticism of school by telling me that schools are not just places to learn maths and spelling, they are places where children learn a vaguely defined thing called socialization...I think schools generally do an effective and terribly damaging job of teaching children to be infantile, dependent, intellectually dishonest, passive and disrespectful to their own developmental capacities.

  Seymour Papert

  Jobs, Children, Teaching

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• Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.

  Isaac Asimov

  Inspirational, Trust, Education

  Isaac Asimov (1975). “Science Past, Science Future”, Doubleday Books

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  Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "The Rhythm of Life : Living Every Day with Passion and Purpose" by Matthew Kelly, (p. 80), 2004.

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• The condition of alienation, of being asleep, of being unconscious, of being out of one's mind, is the condition of the normal man.

  R. D. Laing

  Men, Mind, Normal

  R.D Laing (1967). “The Politics of Experience”

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• Intelligence solves problems & produces money.Money without financial intelligence is money soon gone.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspirational, Greatest Wealth, Gone

  Robert Kiyosaki (2015). “Rich Dad Poor Dad: What The Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not!”, p.70, Robert Kiyosaki

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• If we taught babies to talk as most skills are taught in school, they would memorize lists of sounds in a predetermined order and practice them alone in a closet.

  Linda Darling-Hammond

  Education, Baby, Learning

  Linda Darling-Hammond, Nicole Ramos-Beban, Rebecca Padnos Altamirano, Maria E. Hyler (2016). “Be the Change: Reinventing School for Student Success”, p.114, Teachers College Press

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• One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect on me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year.

  Albert Einstein

  Motivational, School, Years

  Albert Einstein, Stephen W. Hawking (2007). “A Stubbornly Persistent Illusion: The Essential Scientific Works of Albert Einstein”, p.346, Running Press

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• I've concluded that genius is as common as dirt. We suppress genius because we haven't yet figured out how to manage a population of educated men and women. The solution, I think, is simple and glorious. Let them manage themselves.

  John Taylor Gatto

  Learning, Men, Thinking

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• I am concerned that too many people are focused too much on money and not on their greatest wealth, which is their education. If people are prepared to be flexible, keep an open mind and learn, they will grow richer and richer through the changes. If they think money will solve the problems, I am afraid those people will have a rough ride. Intelligence solves problems and produces money. Money without financial intelligence is money soon gone.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspirational, Motivational, Thinking

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• The condition of alienation, of being asleep, of being unconscious, of being out of one’s mind, is the condition of the normal man. Society highly values its normal man. It educates children to lose themselves and to become absurd, and thus to be normal. Normal men have killed perhaps 100,000,000 of their fellow normal men in the last fifty years.

  R. D. Laing

  Children, Learning, Men

  R.D Laing (1967). “The Politics of Experience”

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• Ignoring is what you are supposed to do with bullies, so they get bored and leave you alone. But the problem in school is that they don't get bored, because whatever else there is to do is more boring still.

  Paul Murray

  School, Bored, Bully

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• I think sleeping was my problem in school. If school had started at 4:00 in the afternoon, I'd be a college graduate today.

  George Foreman

  Graduation, School, Sleep

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• I get stubborn and dig in when people tell me I can't do something and I think I can. It goes back to my childhood when I had problems in school because I have a learning disability.

  Ann Bancroft

  School, Thinking, People

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• I loved doing problems in school.

  Andrew Wiles

  School, Problem

  "Andrew Wiles on Solving Fermat". The NOVA Interview, www.pbs.org. November 01, 2000.

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• I didn't really fit with other kids. I had problems in school all my life and problems with authority. But my parents never did drugs or anything. They just believed in freedom in the best sense of the word.

  Julie Delpy

  School, Kids, Parent

  "Julie Delpy's Entropic Vacation". Interview with Drew Fortune, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 9, 2012.

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