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Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.

A lot of fellows nowadays have a B.A., M.D., or Ph.D. Unfortunately, they don’t have a J.O.B.

Don’t be ‘practical’ in politics. To be practical in that sense means that you have schooled yourself to think along the lines, and in the grooves that those who rob you would desire you to think.

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.

How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.

Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.

Knowledge is recognizing what you know and what you don’t.

If you’re dealing with grappling [with] problems of feeding people, the biggest impact in fertility reduction is girls’ schools. Schooled girls make a bigger impact on that than any other factor – not these various regulations [such as] you have to have one child or that. It turns out that none of these are effective.

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

In the year 2000 an illiterate person will not be someone who can’t read or write, but someone who is not able to learn, unlearn and learn again.

It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for understanding, a delight in changing reality. Our audience must experience not only the ways to free Prometheus, but be schooled in the very desire to free him. Theater must teach all the pleasures and joys of discovery, all the feelings of triumph associated with liberation.

We are not merely tempered and schooled by failure but compelled, in however subtle a fashion, to become something other than we were.

I was home-schooled ’cause I wanted to be an actor. I would spend all day watching movies, trying to get through calculus.

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

It is among the commonplaces of education that we often first cut off the living root and then try to replace its natural functions by artificial means. Thus we suppress the child’s curiosity and then when he lacks a natural interest in learning he is offered special coaching for his scholastic difficulties.

I was home-schooled, was always very close with my mom and was very straight-laced and square. I was never the rebellious one, and I never threw hissy fits.

Rick Santorum said this week that his 12-year-old could out-reason me about God. Look, I am not about to debate a home-schooled 12-year-old. I have enough trouble with Sarah Palin.

It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom; without this it goes to wrack and ruin without fail. It is a grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty.

Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.

What’s the difference between a bright, inquisitive five-year-old, and a dull, stupid nineteen-year-old? Fourteen years of the British educational system.

We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.

Education is the movement from darkness to light.

It’s time to admit that public education operates like a planned economy, a bureaucratic system in which everybody’s role is spelled out in advance and there are few incentives for innovation and productivity. It’s no surprise that our school system doesn’t improve: It more resembles the communist economy than our own market economy.

I was home-schooled. My mom wasn’t a fan of public school systems. She was scared of letting me go. So, she home-schooled my siblings and I, and she was desperately trying to find something for me to do, for an extracurricular. She was trying to socialize me, so she put me in community theater and I was instantly taken by it.

When you want to teach children to think, you begin by treating them seriously when they are little, giving them responsibilities, talking to them candidly, providing privacy and solitude for them, and making them readers and thinkers of significant thoughts from the beginning. That’s if you want to teach them to think.

I was a schooled musician. When I made ‘Blue Velvet’, I told everyone what to do. I was an arranger. I learned music in school I told the band to play this. I told the guitar to do that.

I never wanted to be home-schooled. I didn’t like the idea of being home-schooled. It would only separate myself even further from the real world, and that’s never what I wanted.

If the child is left to himself, he will think more and better, if less showily. Let him go and come freely, let him touch real things and combine his impressions for himself.

I was home schooled starting in seventh grade.

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

It’s just a joy to be able to work with a lot of different musicians. When you play with great musicians, whether they’re schooled or self-taught, they keep you on your toes.

We’re teaching a generation of students who’ve been schooled to produce quick, right answers on demand. They are not comfortable with ambiguity. The implications of that in the long term are discomforting.

I was schooled at home, then didn’t go to university because I married when I was 17. I didn’t go into work until late in my life.