Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes

Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.

Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up.

We have always believed that our people can stand on no higher ground than the school ground, or can enter any more hopeful room than the classroom. We blend time and faith and knowledge in our schools - not only to create educated citizens, but also to shape the destiny of this great Republic.

Educated fools; from uneducated schools.

But, good gracious, you've got to educate him first. You can't expect a boy to be vicious till he's been to a good school.

Knowledge has outstripped character development, and the young today are given an education rather than an upbringing.

Although children are good and well born, vice will blight them if they are not well educated.

The first thing you get from the humanities, when they're well taught, is critical thinking. Philosophy in particular can play that role, not just in universities but in schools as well.

I think school is so important. I was good student. A rebel, but I did well in my studies. I don't close myself to anything. I liked reading and I still love learning. I loved history and German.

School is an institution built on the axiom that learning is the result of teaching. And institutional wisdom continues to accept this axiom, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary.

There’s more time spent on teaching kids about recycling than on character development in the American schools.

Everyone goes to rotten schools when they're kids, don't they?

All kids, I think, are creative, but they get it pounded out of them in school.

Three things are needed to educate the peasantry: schools, schools, and schools.

American high schools have physically imprisoned young people, stripped them of civil liberties and fed them a diet of p.c. pap.

We need to provide an education which teaches crit­ical thinking and encourages the development of mature moral values.

Well, but you affirm that virtue is only elicited by temptation; - and you think that a woman cannot be too little exposed to temptation, or too little acquainted with vice, or anything connected therewith - It must be, either, that you think she is essentially so vicious, or so feeble-minded that she cannot withstand temptation, - and though she may be pure and innocent as long as she is kept in ignorance and restraint, yet, being destitute of real virtue, to teach her how to sin is at once to make her a sinner.

The classroom - not the trench - is the frontier of freedom now and forevermore.

Education must have two foundations --morality as a support for virtue, prudence as a defense for self against the vices of others. By letting the balance incline to the side of morality, you only make dupes or martyrs; by letting it incline to the other, you make calculating egoists.

I grant this mode of secluding boys from the intercourse of private families has a tendency to make them scholars, but our business is to make them men, citizens, and Christians. The vices of young people are generally learned from each other. The vices of adults seldom infect them. By separating them from each other, therefore, in their hours of relaxation from study, we secure their morals from a principal source of corruption, while we improve their manners by subjecting them to those restraints which the difference of age and sex naturally produce in private families.

Any place where you have to deal with many social actors like a school - you have the parents, the Ministry of Education, the school board, and the teachers - you need all kinds of sets and rules. You're trying to foresee anything that can happen and everything becomes really rigid. They don't want to talk about death because they don't want to overwhelm the children, but that has already happened, so you're not going to overwhelm them more.

All schools, all colleges have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal valuable knowledge.

Education is suffering from narration sickness.

Teaching school is but another word for sure and not very slow destruction.