Quotes from Famous People

The following famous people were home educated.

Read some quotes about conventional and home schooling from some famous people.

Albert Einstein: "It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiousity 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 very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty. To the contrary, I believe it would be possible to rob even a healthy beast of prey of its voraciousness, if it were possible, with the aid of a whip, to force the beast to devour continuously, even when not hungry, especially if the food ... handed out under such coercion, were to be selected accordingly."

Bertrand Russell: "Children who are forced to eat acquire a loathing for food and children who are forced to learn acquire a loathing for knowledge."

George Bernard Shaw: "There is nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school. To begin with, it is a prison. But it is in some respects more cruel than a prison. In a prison, for instance, you are not forced to read books written by the warders and the governor. In prison they may torture your body but they do not torture your brains"

Mark Twain: "I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."

Isaac Asimov: "Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is."

Margaret Mead: "My grandmother wanted me to have an education, so she kept me out of school."

Alvin Toffler: "America’s schools ... still operate like factories. They subject the raw material (children) to standardised instruction and routine inspection. An important question to ask of any proposed educational innovation is simply this: is it intended to make the factory run more efficiently, or is it designed, as it should be, to get rid of the factory model altogether and replace it with individualised, customised education?"