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Many People Speak Out Selected Websites Gentle Wind School Newsletters School Survival . net John Taylor Gatto Nobel Prize Winners Hate School Selected Quotes “Most of us would say we love to learn, but we hated school.” – Derrick Jensen “Even students who are getting good grades often hate school.” – applest.com "School days, I believe, are the unhappiest in the whole span of human existence." – H.L. Mencken "I have not the least doubt that school developed in me nothing but what was evil and left the good untouched." – Edvard Grieg "The most serious and irreparable psychological harm done to people in this society was incurred in school during their so-called educational experiences." – Gentle Wind School Newsletter "The premise upon which mass compulsion schooling is based is dead wrong. It tries to shoehorn every style, culture, and personality into one ugly boot that fits nobody." – John Taylor Gatto "[T]he result desired by the state is a wholly different one from that desired by parents, guardians, and pupils." – Lester Frank Ward, 1897 "Public school is fundamentally flawed. The flaw is that public school is a bureaucracy that is distantly controlled by a centralized bureaucracy. Public school is controlled by bureaucracies, not people; thus, public school is always going to be horrible. Even if public school had better education methods and had students successfully learn many sustainable wisdoms and skills and had students get higher test scores, public school would still be horrible and fundamentally flawed." – Z. Elrick "Academies that are founded at public expense are instituted not so much to cultivate men's natural abilities as to restrain them." – Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677) "In keeping Americans ill-educated, ill-informed and constitutionally ignorant, the education establishment has been the politician's major and most faithful partner. It is in this sense that American education can be deemed a success." - Walter Williams "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 know. 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 "Education in America today functions exactly as it did in ancient Rome. It is a system of prestige and vanity and has no other purpose." – Gentle Wind School Newsletter "Together we have come to realize that for most men the right to learn is curtailed by the obligation to attend school." – Ivan Illich "A child educated only at school is an uneducated child." – George Santayana "Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school." – Albert Einstein "All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education." – Sir Walter Scott "I have never let my schooling interfere with my education." – Mark Twain "My grandmother wanted me to have an education, so she kept me out of school." – Margaret Mead "Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality." – Beatrix Potter "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 "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 “It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.” – Albert Einstein "I hated school so intensely. It interfered with my freedom" – Sigrid Undset "There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison." – William Glasser "There is nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school" – George Bernard Shaw More Quotes Against Public School “Instead of a national curriculum for education, what is really needed is an individual curriculum for every child.” – Charles Handy “Education is not a product: mark, diploma, job, money in that order; it is a process, a never ending one.” – Bel Kaufman "Not everything that counts can be counted and not everything that can be counted counts." – Albert Einstein. Public school standardized tests may be scored, but the scores do not count for indicating hardly anything about education. Standardized testing is predominantly used as a witch hunt in which children, school districts, states, and nations are the victims. Furthermore, standardized testing distracts and impedes a useful education. While there is standardized testing, children are forced to be burdened with trifles and artificial concerns. While there is standardized testing, children are not learning how to be a benefit to society and nature. Thus, society and nature deteriorates. Count the rate of species extinction, count the rate that natural resources are being depleted, count how many acres of rainforest are lost per day, and count how many people are starving in the world: these are some genuine signs of how harmful standardized testing, report card grades, and public school are in general to children, society, and nature. Selected You Tube videos "You Gotta Go To School" "History of compulsory schooling" “Sir Ken Robinson – Do schools kill creativity?” "The perils of the teacher-centered classroom" "No Child Left Behind: Truths and Consequences" You-Tube "George Carlin - Owners of America" from Life is Worth Losing, 2005 "Dismantle Public Education" Selected Discussion Board Newsletter / Discussion Board on Public School Selected Books The Underground History of American Education, by John Taylor Gatto, 2000. Walking on Water: Reading and Writing Revolution, Derrick Jensen, 2004. Endgame, by Derrick Jensen, 2006. The Well-Adjusted Child: The Social Benefits of Homeschooling, by Rachel Gathercole (2007). Links: Imagine a Beneficial School The Beneficial Alternative to Public School Back to The Problems of Public School. Back to All About School. |
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