Problems In School Quotes

I didn’t really fit with other kids. I had problems in school all my life and problems with authority. But my parents never did drugs or anything. They just believed in freedom in the best sense of the word.

I loved doing problems in school.

Intelligence solves problems & produces money.Money without financial intelligence is money soon gone.

Ignoring is what you are supposed to do with bullies, so they get bored and leave you alone. But the problem in school is that they don’t get bored, because whatever else there is to do is more boring still.

The condition of alienation, of being asleep, of being unconscious, of being out of one’s mind, is the condition of the normal man.

I think schools generally do an effective and terribly damaging job of teaching children to be infantile, dependent, intellectually dishonest, passive and disrespectful to their own developmental capacities.

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds.

I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.

One had to cram all this stuff into one’s mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect on me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

The whole educational and professional training system is a very elaborate filter, which just weeds out people who are too independent, and who think for themselves, and who don’t know how to be submissive, and so on — because they’re dysfunctional to the institutions.

If we taught babies to talk as most skills are taught in school, they would memorize lists of sounds in a predetermined order and practice them alone in a closet.

I think sleeping was my problem in school. If school had started at 4:00 in the afternoon, I’d be a college graduate today.

Society highly values its normal man. It educates children to lose themselves and to become absurd, and thus to be normal.

I’ve concluded that genius is as common as dirt. We suppress genius because we haven’t yet figured out how to manage a population of educated men and women. The solution, I think, is simple and glorious. Let them manage themselves.

Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.