Disturbing Education System Quotes
Read These Education System Quotes and Understand the Fallacy of Education in America. Our Children Are Being Intentionally Dumbed Down and It’s Time to Say No.
“The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality.
“School days, I believe, are the unhappiest in the whole span of human existence.
They are full of dull, unintelligible tasks, new and unpleasant ordinances, and brutal violations of common sense and common decency.”
– H.L. Mencken
“There is no other country in the world where there is such a large gap between the sophisticated understanding of some professional historians and the basic education given by teachers.”
– Marc Ferro
“Most teachers do not like controversy.
“A study some years ago found that 92 percent of teachers did not initiate discussion of controversial issues, 89 percent didn’t discuss controversial issues when students brought them up, and 79 percent didn’t believe they should.”
– James W. Loewen, Lies My Teacher Told Me
“Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without education.
“Education enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.”
– Albert Edward Wiggam
“My schooling not only failed to teach me what it professed to be teaching, but prevented me from being educated to an extent which infuriates me when I think of all I might have learned at home by myself.”
– George Bernard Shaw
“There is one thing at least of which there is never so much as a whisper inside the popular schools; and that is the opinion of the people.
“The only persons who seem to have nothing to do with the education of the children are the parents.”
– G K Chesterton
“There is not one Indian in the whole of this country who does not cringe in anguish and frustration because of these textbooks.
“There is not one Indian child who has not come home in shame and tears.”
– Rupert Costo
“Whenever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education.
“It has been discovered that the best way to insure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery.”
– Benjamin Disraeli
“Considering that virtually none of the standard fare surrounding Thanksgiving contains an ounce of authenticity, historical accuracy, or cross-cultural perception, why is it so apparently ingrained?
“Is it necessary to the American psyche to perpetually exploit and debase its victims in order to justify its history?”
– Michael Dorris
“The founding fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on their parents.
“So they provided jails called school, equipped with tortures called education.”
– John Updike