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quoteList[0] = "If you see this, click on the e-mail link below and let us know what you think of our site quotes. Or send us YOUR favorite!
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All Parents Are Educators. What Are You Teaching YOUR Children?";
quoteList[1] = "A tax supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state.
Isabel Patterson
From The God of the Machine";
quoteList[2] = "Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud";
quoteList[3] = "Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.
Lillian Hellman";
quoteList[4] = "All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.
Mark Twain";
quoteList[5] = "Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.
Harry Emerson Fosdick";
quoteList[6] = "Whenever the teacher said, 'If you don't get good grades, you won't do well in the real world,' Mike and I just raised our eyebrows. When we were told to follow set procedures and not deviate from the rules, we could see how the schooling process actually discouraged creativity. We started to understand why our rich dad told us that schools were designed to produce good employees instead of employers.
Robert Kiyosaki
From Rich Dad, Poor Dad";
quoteList[7] = "Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.
Albert Einstein";
quoteList[8] = "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.
Justice Louis Brandeis
1928";
quoteList[9] = "In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
Al Rogers";
quoteList[10] = "The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
Alvin Toffler";
quoteList[11] = "The education of all children, from the moment that they can get along without a mother's care, shall be in state institutions at state expense.
Karl Marx
German philosopher, died 1883";
quoteList[12] = "The secret of the superiority of state over private education lies in the fact that in the former the teacher is responsible to society. The result desired by the state is a wholly different one from that desired by parents, guardians, and pupils.
Lester Frank Ward
Pioneer in American sociology, died 1913";
quoteList[13] = "Our schools are, in a sense, factories, in which the raw products, children, are to be shaped and fashioned into products to meet the various demands of life. The specifications for manufacturing come from the demands of twentieth-century civilization.
Elwood Cubberley
Education historian, died 1941";
quoteList[14] = "The role of the schoolmaster is to collect little plastic lumps of human dough from private households and shape them on the social kneading board according to the specifications laid down.
Edward Ross
Sociologist, Chairman of the ACLU, died 1951";
quoteList[15] = "State education is a mere contrivance for molding people to be exactly alike one another.
John Stuart Mill
British economist and philosopher, died 1873";
quoteList[16] = "The complete secularization [of government schools] is logically inevitable. Christians must prepare themselves for the following results: All prayers, catechisms, and Bibles will ultimately be driven out of the schools.
R. L. Dabney
Southern Presbyterian theologian, died 1898";
quoteList[17] = "The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality.
H. L. Mencken
American journalist and author, died 1956";
quoteList[18] = "The result has been school systems that treat children as units to be processed into particular shapes and dropped into slots roughly congruent with the status of their parents.
Michael Katz
American educator";
quoteList[19] = "The first goal and primary function of the U.S. public school is not to educate good people, but good citizens. It is the function which we call in enemy nations state indoctrination.
Jonathan Kozol
American educator";
quoteList[20] = "We don't need state-certified teachers to make education happen -- that probably guarantees it WON'T.
John Taylor Gatto
New York State Teacher of the Year, 1991";
quoteList[21] = "Young people are reporting for duty incapable of functioning without nonstop handholding and lavish affirmation.
Don Blohowiak
Leadership Now [blogs.bnet.com]. Clipped from Fortune Small Business magazine, May 2005 [fsb.com].";
quoteList[22] = "I don't think the world can afford well-schooled children anymore, whether they come from the factories of government, of church, or of private industry. We need a different kind of man and woman to tackle the future, the kind of young people who accept the obligations of living joyfully and with responsibility.
John Taylor Gatto
New York City and State Teacher of the Year";
quoteList[23] = "Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man.
Benjamin Franklin
Forefather of the United States of America";
quoteList[24] = "It is a rare child indeed who can come through his schooling with much left of his curiosity, his independence, or his sense of his own dignity, competence, and worth.
John Holt
From the book, The Underachieving School";
quoteList[25] = "Thousands of children are suffering from being placed in LD classes, and the labeling of children at an early age becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. The children learn to see themselves as disabled in some way and they act out the part.
Terry Endsley
From the book, The Myth of Learning Disabilities";
quoteList[26] = "The State...has a vested interest in promoting attitudes that would tend to make us skeptical of our own abilities, fearful of the motives of others, and emotionally dependent upon external authorities for purpose and direction in our lives.
Butler D. Shaffer
From Americans for Limited Government. March 15, 2006";
quoteList[27] = "If it's a school day, during school hours, one-fifth of the total American population consists of public school students K through 12. One in five Americans. And if you count teachers and administrators you are probably going to get pretty close to one-quarter of the population of the country at any given time on a weekday sitting in a public school building.
Nicholas Lemann
Front quote from the book: School: The Story of American Public Education";
quoteList[28] = "Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds.
Plato
(427 BC-347 BC)";
quoteList[29] = "If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.
Frank Herbert, author of Dune";
quoteList[30] = "The purpose of education is to teach a student how to live his life -- by developing his mind and equipping him to deal with reality. He has to be taught to think, to understand, to integrate, to prove. He has to be taught the essentials of the knowledge discovered in the past and he has to be equipped to acquire further knowledge by his own effort.
Ayn Rand";
quoteList[31] = "To be matter of fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy -- and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful.
Lazarus Long
A fictional sci-fi character";
quoteList[32] = "The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning, while those other subjects merely require scholarship.
Lazarus Long
A fictional sci-fi character";
quoteList[33] = "The fundamental theory of liberty upon which all governments in this Union repose excludes any general power of the state to standardize its children by forcing them to accept instruction from public teachers only. The childis not the mere creature of the state; those who nurture him and direct his destiny have the right, coupled with the high duty, to recognize and prepare him for additional obligations.
Pierce vs. Society of Sisters, 1922";
quoteList[34] = "This will be the best security for maintaining our liberties. A nation of well-informed men who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them cannot be enslaved. It is in the religion of ignorance that tyranny begins.
Ben Franklin
A famous autodidact and Founding Father";
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