April Vacation's Anti-Education Quote of the Day

Five for Friday:

"I hated school so intensely. It interfered with my freedom."
Nobel Prize winner, Sigrid Undset


"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."
Mark Twain


"Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education."
Victor Hugo


"I believe that school makes complete fools of our young men, because they see and hear nothing of ordinary life there."
Petronius


"Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught."
Oscar Wilde

April Vacation's Anti-Education Quote of the Day

Two sirs, with love:

"All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education."
Sir Walter Scott

"Education would be much more effective if its purpose were to ensure that by the time they leave school every student should know how much they don't know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it."
Sir William Haley

April Vacation's Anti-Education Quote of the Day

Two by Albert Einstein:

"Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school."

"Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual."

April Vacation's Anti-Education Quote of the Day

"All too often education actually acts as a form of aversion therapy, that what we're really teaching our children is to associate learning with work and to associate work with drudgery so that the remainder of their lives they will possibly never go near a book because they associate books with learning, learning with work and work with drudgery. Whereas after a hard day's toil, instead of relaxing with a book they'll be much more likely to sit down in front of an undemanding soap opera because this is obviously teaching them nothing, so it is not learning, so it is not work, it is not drudgery, so it must be pleasure."
Alan Moore, from a March, 2009 interview with Salon

April Vacation's Anti-Education Quote of the Day

A special 2-for-1 Tuesday with author Ivan Illich:

1. "School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is."

2. "Together we have come to realize that for most men the right to learn is curtailed by the obligation to attend school."

Banned Book Tees Banned in KY High School

According to Mad Woman In The Forest, "teachers at Montgomery High School in Mt. Sterling, KY have been banned from wearing Banned Books Week tee-shirts that feature a quote from To Kill A Mockingbird."
The reason? Because wearing them constituted what the school board described as "political activity." Well, obviously. But isn't pledging allegiance to the flag a "political activity"? And taking a holiday on Presidents Day and Memorial Day? And taking an active stance against "political activities"?
Oh, well. At least those played-out Che shirts are still kosher.

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