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More quotes; new section heads
Quotations on the nature of education, and what people have tried to make of it instead.
=Positive=
==Shakyamuni Buddha==
==Shakyamuni Buddha==
We pass through this world but once. Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within.
We pass through this world but once. Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within.
— The Mismeasure of Man
— The Mismeasure of Man
=Negative=
==John Stuart Mill==
A general State education is a mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactly like one another: and as the mould in which it casts them is that which pleases the predominant power in the government, whether this be a monarch, a priesthood, an aristocracy, or the majority of the existing generation; in proportion as it is efficient and successful, it establishes a despotism over the mind, leading by natural tendency to one over the body. An education established and controlled by the State should only exist, if it exists at all, as one among many competing experiments...
On Liberty (1859)
==Upton Sinclair==
It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
I, Candidate for Governor: And How I Got Licked (1935), ISBN 0-520-08198-6; repr. University of California Press, 1994, p. 109.