Jennifer Brady Quotes

When I enrolled in college at age 19, I had a total of eight years of formal classroom education. As a result, I was not comfortable with formal lectures and receiving regular homework assignments.

My favorite subject was either English or History. I had a really awesome high school education.

I am the product of the American education system. It is a system that has always been on the lookout for bright boys and girls. It spotted me when I was 14, and I owe a tremendous debt to my alma mater.

I never wanted to be home-schooled. I didn't like the idea of being home-schooled.

Some students just don't like online class.

I was home-schooled my entire life and never been in a classroom.

I hated school. Hated it.

Children do not learn in school; they are babysat. It takes maybe 50 hours to teach reading, writing, and arithmetic. After that, students can teach themselves. Mainly what school does is to keep the children off the streets and out of the job market.

I loathed every day and regret every day I spent in school. I like to be taught to read and write and add and then be left alone.

Grandfather always said school’s a place where they take sixteen years to wear down your brain. Grandfather hardly went to school either.

Kids don't fail. Teachers fail, school systems fail. The people who teach children that they are failures, they are the problem.

Educated fools; from uneducated schools.

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

Today much of what we call education is merely knowledge gathering and remembering. Problem solving and thinking, never strong parts of our educational system, have been downgraded in all but a few scientific subjects.

it's back to school time. or as home-schoolers call it, stay-where-you-are time.

We carry with us habits of thought and taste fostered in some nearly forgotten classroom by a certain teacher.

Education is suffering from narration sickness.

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

The work of education is divided between the teacher and the environment.

The truth is that schools don't really teach anything except how to obey orders.

School is established, not in order that it should be convenient for the children to study, but that teachers should be able to teach in comfort. The children's conversations, motion, merriment are not convenient for the teacher, and so in the schools, which are built on the plan of prisons, are prohibited.

What we're learning in our schools is not the wisdom of life. We're learning technologies, we're getting information. There's a curious reluctance on the part of faculties to indicate the life values of their subjects.

We boast of our system of education, but why stop at schoolmasters and schoolhouses? We are all schoolmasters, and our schoolhouse is the universe. To attend chiefly to the desk or schoolhouse while we neglect the scenery in which it is placed is absurd. If we do not look out we shall find our find schoolhouse standing in a cow-yard at last.

The classroom's the last room to get the truth.