Thomas Love Peacock Quotes

Schools teach the need to be taught.

We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing.

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

The problem I have with schools is, people are taught, 'This is how you do this.' They're not taught about why you do this.

I don't remember one thing I learned in school.

I don't believe in colleges and universities.

I had a great education. From kindergarten to John Dewey High School in Coney Island, I am public-school educated.

Personally, I think universities are finished. So much rubbish gets taught.

One of the reasons I'm so passionate about science is that it wasn't correctly taught to me. I got excited at university.

Formal education must change. It needs to be brought into closer alignment with the world as it actually is, into closer harmony with the way human beings actually learn and thrive.

Thou hast most traitorously corrupted the youth of the realm in erecting a grammar school.

There is something out of gear about graded schools and all that. Memory is developed at the expense of what in general we are pleased to call thought and character.

School gets in the way of my learning.

Ideally, what should be said to every child, repeatedly, throughout his or her school life is something like this: "You are in the process of being indoctrinated. We have not yet evolved a system of education that is not a system of indoctrination. We are sorry, but it is the best we can do."

Children enter school as question marks and leave as periods.

College is a place where a professor's lecture notes go straight to the students' lecture notes, without passing through the brains of either.

School is not the end but only the beginning of an education.

I hate, loathe and despise schools.School is bad for you if you have any talent. You should be cultivating that talent in your own particular way.

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

Poetry is the most mistaught subject in any school because we teach poetry by form and not by content.

Education, as conceived today, is something separated both from biological and social life.

A boy will learn more true wisdom in a public school in a year than by a private education in five. It is not from masters, but from their equals, that youth learn a knowledge of the world.

I pay the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys that educate my son.

He was appalled by the examination system, when it was explained to him, he could not imagine a greater detterent to the natural wish to learn than this pattern of cramming in information and disgorging it on demand.

I have no problems with private schools. I graduated from one and so did my mother.