“Adults constantly raise the bar on smart children, precisely because they're able to handle it. The children get overwhelmed by the tasks in front of them and gradually lose the sort of openness and sense of accomplishment they innately have. When they're treated like that, children start to crawl i…”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“The facts and techniques or whatever they teach you in class isn't going to be very useful in the real world, that's for sure.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“Schools often fail to simultaneously train students how to be skeptical of claims & how to embrace the weight of evidence.”— Neil deGrasse Tyson, twitter.com
“The rise of flat-Earthers in society provides some of the best evidence for the failure of our educational system.”— Neil deGrasse Tyson, twitter.com
“In school, students cheat because the system values high grades more than students value learning.”— Neil deGrasse Tyson, twitter.com
“In school, curiosity is hardly ever taught or nurtured, breeding legions of students who’ve lost all love of learning.”— Neil deGrasse Tyson, twitter.com
“Intellectual students who genuinely enjoy learning tend to struggle in high school. They find the education system "stifling" because it doesn't allow them to pursue their passions deeply.”— Shana Lebowitz, entrepreneur.com.ph
“Schools reward students who consistently do what they are told -- and life rewards people who shake things up.”— Shana Lebowitz, entrepreneur.com.ph
“Education, in order to keep up the mighty delusion, encourages a species of ignorance. People are not taught to be really virtuous, but to behave properly. We are wicked because we are frightfully self-conscious.”— Kakuzō Okakura, amazon.com
“How much do we not suffer through the constant failure of society to recognise this simple and fundamental law of art and life; Lichilai, a Sung poet, has sadly remarked that there were three most deplorable things in the world: the spoiling of fine youths through false education, the degradation of…”— Kakuzō Okakura, amazon.com
“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.”— Pablo Picasso, simple.wikiquote.org