Mandatory Education Quotes

Centuries have elapsed since schools were first established.... Because learning was viewed as the exclusive province of the samurai and his superiors, farmers, artisans, merchants and women have neglected it altogether.... There shall, in the future, be no community with an illiterate family, nor a family with an illiterate person .... Hereafter ... every man shall, of his own accord, subordinate all other matters to the education of his children.

A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state.

Computer science needs to be part of the core curriculum - like algebra, biology, physics, or chemistry. We need all schools to teach it, not just 10%.

When you're forced to watch something in school, you never really enjoy it; you sort of rebel against it in a certain way.

Islamic subjects are taught with the aim of instilling in those students the essence of the Islamic message and its philosophy in general …. Such form of religious education is obligatory upon everyone who lives in a Muslim country regardless of whether he is a Muslim or not.

Making it a valid law to learn by suffering.

Schools [are]...institutions monopolizing the daytimes of childhood.

I've nothing against schools! I'm against compulsory schooling.

We cannot go beyond the consumer society unless we first understand that obligatory public schools inevitably reproduce such a society, no matter what is taught in them.

Besides, I could hardly complain to the administration that I was being forced to learn magic.

I'm a biologist, so... Which I think should be mandatory. Biology should be mandatory. Mathematics? They say we don't know enough about math and science. Well we don't know enough about science and particularly biology, which is such a huge field.

To deschool means to abolish the power of one person to oblige another.

I'm a big proponent of mandatory computer science education. I think the first step is educating policymakers that technology is changing the way that we live and work, and it's happening so fast.

A public school teacher occupies a position of great trust, with potentially great influence over young people whose attendance is compulsory. A person should not be allowed to take advantage of such a position to promote his or her own—or any—religion.

It should be mandatory that you understand computer science.

School's not for everyone, but I'm not telling people to leave school.

For a very small expence the public can facilitate, can encourage, and can even impose upon almost the whole body of the people, the necessity of acquiring those most essential parts of education.

I think everybody should go to high school. It's horrible, and it unites you with other people.

I was lucky that science fair was mandatory at my high school in inner-city Buffalo.

Continued adherence to a policy of compulsory education is utterly incompatible with efforts to establish lasting peace.

Since all taxpayers are being forced to fund the religion of evolution in schools and it is evolution that must be proven to be the only way our universe came into being like the textbooks say, what happens if one jury member will not vote with the rest?

If you don't go to highschool you will definately go to jail.

Nobody with a criminal record would ever be allowed to buy a gun. All assault weapons would be banned, completely. And everybody who still possesses a gun license would receive mandatory education and training by professionals on how to handle a gun. After all, I can't drive my car until I pass a test proving I know how to handle a car.

It makes sense for societies to make education compulsory for children. Children are vulnerable. They can't make decisions. But the decisions can't all be left in the hands of the parents. They can be irresponsible too.