My schooling did me a great deal of harm and no good whatever; it was simply dragging a child’s soul through the dirt.
You must adjust. . . . This is the legend imprinted in every schoolbook, the invisible message on every blackboard. Our schools have become vast factories for the manufacture of robots.
School is about two parts ABCs to fifty parts Where Do I Stand in the Great Pecking Order of Humankind.
Can we accept this extreme statement that amounts to saying that human life is shattered by education? . . . Education directs all our attention towards knowledge and attaches no importance to understanding. Exposing children to this kind of influence means that they reach adult life having lost themselves, being entirely dependent upon external things — possessions, the opinions of other people, appearances, and so on.
