Quotes about Anti-education

Jaden Smith

If Everybody In The World Dropped Out Of School We Would Have A Much More Intelligent Society.

Jason Whitlock

We have allowed our youths to buy into a culture (hip hop) that has been perverted, corrupted and overtaken by prison culture. The music, attitude and behavior expressed in this culture is anti-black, anti-education, demeaning, self-destructive, pro-drug dealing and violent.

DeWitt Clinton

There is a sect in this country, which extends its influence, more or less, into all the ramifications of society, that explodes all kinds of knowledge not founded on personal experience; which inculcates that ignorance is the summum bonum; that the less one reads the more one thinks, and that the less he understands, the better he can act; that education beyond the precincts of common schools is allied to aristocracy, and incompatible with natural equality

In early America, as today, there was a substantial element of American society who distrusted intellectuals and education. They saw education as promoting inequality and leading to an aristocracy. Reading was actually attacked by many on the grounds that one’s thinking skills would atrophy. (Today we worry about TV eroding reading skills.) “Summum bonum” is Latin meaning “the Highest Good”.

Bob Marley

I'm not educated; I'd be a damn fool if I was (educated)!

Haruki Murakami

Grandfather always said school’s a place where they take sixteen years to wear down your brain. Grandfather hardly went to school either.

Mark Twain

School gets in the way of my learning.

George Mikes

There are many non-intellectual countries; Australia is one of the few anti-intellectual ones.

H. L. Hunt

I didn't go to high school, and I didn't go to grade school either. Education, I think, is for refinement and is probably a liability.

Charlie Crist

anti-woman, anti-immigrant, anti-gay, anti-education, anti-environment.

The Republican Party has become See {635400} for an earlier expression of his frustration that his party was abandoning its roots and its principles developed under its 2 greatest Presidents, Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt. Crist, an excellent governor was driven out of the Republican Party when the Tea Party extremists gained a degree of control within the party driving it far to the right.

John Waters

The anger I have about high school - which I do have because they discouraged every interest I ever had; actually I call it anti-education - that anger led to my career.

Aaron Sorkin

I have a big problem with people who glamorize dumbness and demonize education and intellect. And I'm giving a pretty good description of Sarah Palin right now.

Anti-education Quotes