Ezra Miller Quotes

The school is the manufactory of humanity.

Most of my contemporaries at school entered the World of Business, the logical destiny of bores.

Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality.

Public school was never in business to produce Thoreau. It is in business to produce a man like Richard Nixon and, even more, a population like the one which could elect him.

Luckily, the public school system that I was in had a really great drama program, so I plunged into that. It really sort of kept me afloat because I was bored in school.

It was exactly an assembly line. You could look into infinity down these rows of drawing tables.

The south produced statesmen and soldiers, planters and doctors and lawyers and poets, but certainly no engineers and mechanics. Let Yankees adopt such low callings.

With production alone as the goal, industry in North America was dominated by the assembly line, standardization for mass consumption.

Our public school system is our country's biggest and most inefficient monopoly, yet it keeps demanding more and more money.

It's the Industrial Revolution and the growth of urban concentrations that led to a sense of anonymity.

When you introduce competition into the public school system, most studies show that schools start to do better when they are competing for students.

The public school system doesn't get everybody. Every generation has its rebels.

When I look back now I realize I was such an obnoxious kid but, you know, I went to schools like you, like a public school in New York so compared to the anarchy that was going on there, they really wouldn't - I wasn't like a bad kid. I saw people come in and punch the teachers.

From the early 1960s to the mid-1980s - the era of military dictatorship when South Korea was rebuilding itself from a postwar economic basket case to a humming, modern nation - military schools were the track of choice for ambitious young men.

Although prefabrication has a long history - the ancient Romans shipped pre-cut stone columns, pediments, and other architectural elements to their colonies in North Africa, where the numbered parts were reassembled into temples - the idea took on a new impetus with the technological advances of the Industrial Revolution.

Most of the people that I went to school with - I went to secondary school - we were educated to go and work in the line at Ford's, and if we were lucky, technical skilled labor. I sort of rejected that, and thought I wanted to do something else.

The genius idea of industrialism was the concept of the Model T: In exchange for something cheap and well-made, we'd forgo unique, lovely design.

I attended public school with the same group of kids from K through 12.

I had an Edinburgh, middle-class childhood and a public school education.

Mechanization best serves mediocrity.

Society is so divided in its perception of public school people. Most people who went to public school behave in the right way, but every now and then there will be someone who comes along and ruins it.

I have a premonition which sounds like utter folly, and yet it will not leave me: the military state will become one vast factory.

We have been taught by experience the danger of the levelling spirit.

A premodern society, a preindustrial society, is one where people wake up whenever they want, there’s a lot of work but that isn’t set off from leisure…. A modern society is one where the bells ring at a certain time and we move from one place to another and people just become parts of a machine which has a very well thought out, pre-thought out way of working.

When people lose faith in a system as they have in the public school system, they no longer want to support it.