Education Quotes

I suppose it is because nearly all children go to school nowadays and have things arranged for them that they seem so forlornly unable to produce their own ideas.
– Agatha Christie (Author)

 Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
– Beatrix Potter (Author of the Peter Rabbit books)

We must create out of the younger generation a generation of Communists. We must turn children, who can be shaped like wax, into real, good Communists.... We must remove the children from the crude influence of their families. We must take them over and, to speak frankly, nationalize them. From the first days of their lives they will be under the healthy influence of Communist children's nurseries and schools. There they will grow up to be real Communists.
– Communist Party Education Workers Congress (1918)


My grandmother wanted me to have an education, so she kept me out of school.
– Margaret Mead

Schools have not necessarily much to do with education... they are mainly institutions of control, where basic habits must be inculcated in the young. Education is quite different and has little place in school.
– Winston Churchill

When school children start paying union dues, that's when I'll start representing the interests of school children.
– Albert Shanker, Former President of the American Federation of Teachers 

 Government schooling is the most radical adventure in history. It kills the family by monopolizing the best times of childhood and by teaching disrespect for home and parents....
– John Taylor Gatto, New York State Teacher of the Year, "The Underground History of American Education"

Education is unique among consumer products – when it fails to work as advertised, it's the customer that gets labelled as defective.
– Kevin Killion