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Date: 18 August 2005 20:08:17

"My schooling not only failed to teach me what it professed to be teaching, but prevented me from being educated to an extent which infuriates me when I think of all I might have learned at home by myself."
- George Bernard Shaw.

"Most criticism of the old education, and the old concepts it conserves and transmits...makes the point that the students who endure it come out as passive, acquiscent, dogmatic, intolerant, authoritarian, inflexible, conservative personalities who desperately need to resist change in an effort to keep their illusion of certainty in tact."
- Neil Postman and Charles Weingartner.

"All sorts of intellectual systems - Christianity, Socialism, Patriotism etc., - are ready, like orphans asylums, to give safety in return for servitude. A free mental life cannot be as warm and comfortable and sociable as a life enveloped in a creed."
- Bertrand Russell.