- “Education consists mainly in what we have unlearned.” -Mark Twain
True stuff. Education is not the act of stuffing information into your brain. It’s the constant refinement of ideas.
- “When you take the free will out of education, that turns it into schooling.” -John Taylor Gatto
Schooling is the process of educating everyone the same way. However, we are all individuals and this process takes the individuality out of a human.
- “What does education often do? It makes a straight cut ditch out of a free, meandering brook.” -Henry David Thoreau
Traditional education seeks to fit each child into the same box as his peers. This kills the potential of every child that fits in the box.
- “The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.”- Albert Einstein
Learning was meant to be a process of constant curiosity. When this is stifled by a standard of education, the human stops growing.
- “Knowledge that is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.” -Plato
True education is that knowledge that makes you come alive. It’s not going to be the same as the person beside you. We kill the growth in humanity by expecting each individual to know the same things as everyone else.