Quotes About Compulsory Education

#1. The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#2. The school of life embodies a compulsory education that no man escapes.

George Edward Woodberry

#3. Continued adherence to a policy of compulsory education is utterly incompatible with efforts to establish lasting peace.

Ludwig Von Mises

#4. America's public schools have served their purpose. Free and compulsory education was good for a somewhat unpromising young nation.

P. J. O'Rourke

#5. Valda said that if you change your residence every six months you can legally free your children from compulsory education.

John Cage

#6. Avoid compulsion and let early education be a matter of amusement. Young children learn by games; compulsory education cannot remain in the soul.

Plato

#7. The great appeal of drugs in the West is only because the West has succeeded in destroying the right hemisphere completely because of compulsory education.

Osho

#8. I, as an anarch, renouncing any bond, any limitation of freedom, also reject compulsory education as nonsense. It was one of the greatest well-springs of misfortune in the world.

Ernst Junger

#9. Ah me, how weak a thing
The heart of woman is!

William Shakespeare

#10. We have a large underclass in Britain, and a fairly low standard of education. Our best universities are extremely good, but a very significant proportion of the British population that comes out of compulsory schooling with very low standards of education.

Nigel Short

#11. The belief that young people are incapable of making reasonable decisions is a cornerstone of our system of compulsory, closely monitored education.

Peter O. Gray

#12. A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state.

Isabel Paterson

#13. Money has never been a huge inspiration for me.

Ryan Kwanten

#14. Your struggles have not been a waste. They've come to strengthen you. And grow your capacity to lead - and win.

Robin Sharma

#15. Policymakers can draw much from 'The Need for Roots': such clear prescriptions as that employers ought to provide an adequate vocational training for their employees, education should be compulsory and publicly funded, and include technical as well as elementary education.

Pankaj Mishra

#16. The passageway smelled like decaying bodies and lavender. Her nose found it entertaining. The rocky tunnel ate their footsteps. Camin Barice wanted it to steal their voices. Then, she wouldn't have to listen to the aggravating filth spilling from her charges holes.

Auden Johnson

#17. The railroads are not run for the benefit of the dear public. That cry is nonsense. They are built for men who invest their money and expect to get a fair percentage of the same.

William Henry Vanderbilt

#18. Life is so precious, such a gift, you have to live for you. Live your own truth, live the life that God has put you and nobody else on this Earth to live and not what somebody might be telling you to live.

Tyler Perry

#19. I'm not a great band member; I'm more of a band leader.

J. D. Souther

#20. Were I to be appointed Secretary of Education, I'd issue a prospectus for a compulsory nationwide high school course called 'The American Experience in Art.'

Terry Teachout

#21. I generally blog between 5:30 A.M. and 7 A.M. I will from time to time add something during the day, but for the most part blogging is an early morning activity for me.

Fred Wilson

#22. It was in making education not only common to all, but in some sense compulsory on all, that the destiny of the free republics of America was practically settled.

James Russell Lowell

#23. Education: free and compulsory - what a way to learn logic!

Frank Van Dun

#24. When we live our lives authentically, we discover our true place in the world for the first time.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

#25. God alone, O my soul, wait in silence, for my hope is from him.

Anonymous

#26. He looked as though he had just had a steam bath, a massage, a good breakfast and a letter from home," wrote one journalist.

Rick Atkinson

#27. It makes sense for societies to make education compulsory for children. Children are vulnerable. They can't make decisions. But the decisions can't all be left in the hands of the parents. They can be irresponsible too.

Noam Chomsky

#28. Collective responsibility, a sense of the greater good versus just one's own good, and a strong set of collective values are imperative for improving society. These are the aims of all these pieces about our society.

Chetan Bhagat

#29. It does not matter how slow you go so long as you do not stop

Confucius

#30. Starting from the primary schools, there must be compulsory 'Cosmos' classes throughout the education period. If a man thinks about and understands the universe, he will have wider horizons; he will be much less conceited and much more realistic.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#31. My father is actually a quarry man - he deals in stone. He also at one point had a lot of sheep, he owned a sheep farm, but primarily the family business was in stone.

P.J. Harvey

#32. There can be no greater stretch of arbitrary power than to seize children from their parents, teach them whatever the authorities decree they shall be taught, and expropriate from the parents the funds to pay for the procedure.

Isabel Paterson