Today's Quotes - Education

A look at government schools and home-schooling, in quotes.

"Teachers are directed to instruct their pupils... and to awaken in them
a sense of their responsibility toward the community of the nation."
-- Bernhard Rust
(1883-1945) Minister of Science, Education and National Culture (Reichserziehungsminister) in Nazi Germany
Source: from "Racial Instruction and the National Community," 1935

"Children who know how to think for themselves spoil the harmony of the
collective society which is coming where everyone is interdependent."
-- John Dewey
(1859-1952) American philosopher, psychologist, professor, and progressive educational reformer.

"The National Education Association believes that
home schooling programs based on parental choice cannot
provide the student with a comprehensive education experience."
-- National Education Association Resolution
Source: (2003)

"A family member asked my wife,
''Aren't you concerned about his (our son's) socialization with other kids?"
My wife gave this response:
'Go to your local middle school, junior high, or high school,
walk down the hallways, and tell me which behavior you see
that you think our son should emulate.'"
-- Manfred B. Zysk
German-American engineer and researcher

"'Parent choice' proceeds from the belief that the purpose of education is to
provide individual students with an education. In fact, educating the
individual is but a means to the true end of education, which is to create a
viable social order to which individuals contribute and by which they are
sustained. 'Family choice' is, therefore, basically selfish and anti-social in
that it focuses on the 'wants' of a single family rather than the 'needs' of
society."
-- Association of California School Administrators