Schooling, instead of encouraging the asking of questions, too often discourages it.
-- Madeleine L'Engle

The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion - these are the most valuable coin of the thinker at work. But in most schools guessing is heavily penalized and is associated somehow with laziness.
-- Jerome S. Bruner

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.
-- Anne Sullivan

Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
-- Gilbert K. Chesterton

What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller

The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC)

I appreciate you are all looking for the life vests and rafts to save my child, meanwhile he's drowning in the deep end and I've got to drain the pool!
-- the parent of a gifted child

Education ... has produced a vast population able to read
but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. 
-- G.M. Trevelyan

We expect teachers to handle teenage pregnancy, substance abuse, and the failings of the family.  Then we expect them to educate our children. 
~John Sculley