Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

I didn't go to school much. I was thrown out of different schools, and my university is the street.

Some people get an education without going to college. The rest get it after they get out.

We learn about one another's culture the same way we learn about sex—in the streets.

Wherever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been found that the best way to insure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery..

We need to sort the kids out and educate them properly. After all, they are our future.

It is a monstrous thing to force a child to learn Latin or Greek or mathematics on the ground that they are an indispensable gymnastic for the mental powers. It would be monstrous even if it were true.

Teachers, who educate children, deserve more honour than parents, who merely gave them birth; for the latter provided mere life, while the former ensure a good life.

We have been taught (that is, schooled) in this country to think of 'success' as synonymous with, or at least dependent upon, 'schooling,' but historically that isn’t true in either an intellectual or a financial sense. And plenty of people throughout the world today find a way to educate themselves without resorting to a system of compulsory secondary schools that all too often resemble prison.

I try never to let my schooling get in the way of my education.

Long live teachers of children, because they can show children how they can save the world.

I wouldn't be educating children if I did not believe in human potential.

A child born today in the United Kingdom stands a ten times greater chance of being admitted to a mental hospital than to a university ... This can be taken as an indication that we are driving our children mad more effectively than we are genuinely educating them. Perhaps it is our way of educating them that is driving them mad.

That which we do not call education is more precious than that which we call so.

Its amazing that so many kids turn out to be fairly normal, considering the weird socialization they get in public schools.

A child can educate just about anybody.

While parents possess the original key to their offspring's experience, teachers have a spare key. They, too, can open or close the minds and hearts of children.

Children are not yet fools, but we shall turn them into imbeciles like ourselves, with high I.Q.'s if possible.

I quit school in ninth grade, even though I was good at the studies. I knew I didn't need school for what I wanted.

I know a lot of people who have weird specialties that are not taught in schools; they're things that you learn in life.

Never let formal education get in the way of your learning.

Now, the education of our children is of national concern, and if they are not educated properly, it is a national calamity.

Merely to stuff the child with a lot of information, making him pass examinations, is the most unintelligent form of education.

I do not believe there is a method better than Montessori for making children sensitive to the beauties of the world and awakening their curiosity regarding the secrets of life.

Reducing children to a test score is the worst form of identity theft we could commit in schools.