I've never been a big believer in formal education.
I educated myself. To me, school was boring.
Drop out of the public schools. The public schools cannot be compromised with.
I'm all self-taught. I never had a teacher. Even for English, and French, and German, I hardly went to school.
I loathed every day and regret every day I spent in school. I like to be taught to read and write and add and then be left alone.
Don't get me wrong: school is good and all, but school is way too slow for me. Like, super slow. So I didn't want to go. I wanted to learn on my own with real life experiences.
If Everybody In The World Dropped Out Of School We Would Have A Much More Intelligent Society.
I'm actually the last person to ask about school. I kinda ducked out at 12, before all that stuff might have happened. I left school after sixth grade and was basically home-schooled after that.
Is there an idea more radical in the history of the human race than turning your children over to total strangers whom you know nothing about, and having those strangers work on your child's mind, out of your sight, for a period of twelve years? Could there be a more radical idea than that? Back in Colonial days in America, if you proposed that kind of idea, they'd burn you at the stake, you mad person! It's a mad idea!
I always got good grades; I just didn't go to school much. I didn't like it.
Learning in our family was entirely self-directed.
Thousands of present day students, like many of our Founding Fathers, are being taught at home.
Homeschooling represents another perfectly valid educational option.
I didn't have much of a formal education myself.
When I say 'homeschooled,' I was homeschooled for, like, two years, and then we just stopped. It was me and my parents, and they'd give me homework and stuff like that, but then one day, they just stopped.
I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think. Whereas if the child is left to himself, he will think more and better , if less "showily." Let him come and go freely, let him touch real things and combine his impressions for himself... Teaching fills the mind with artificial associations that must be got rid of before the child can develop independent ideas out of actual experiences.
School really didn't work for me.
Grandfather always said school’s a place where they take sixteen years to wear down your brain. Grandfather hardly went to school either.
We've seen more and more people opt for homeschooling, including in urban areas.
I always like to learn, but I don't always like to be taught.
I think one of the problems [with raising intelligent children] is compulsory schooling...and that children are sitting there and they are taught and told what to believe. They are passive from the very beginning, and one must be very, very aggressive intellectually to have a high IQ [...] the child is taught. Right from the beginning, it's a passive process. He or she sits there, and they simply try to believe everything they're told.
I was home educated but would skip my lessons to go hang out at school.
I definitely didn't fit in perfectly to the school system. I was raised with such freedom of speech and thinking.
I've nothing against schools! I'm against compulsory schooling.
The single most prevalent form of child abuse in this country is the act of sending a child to a government school. We worry incessantly about the separation of church and state. We would do well to devote half as much attention to the separation of government and education.
