“Birds fly, fish swim, man thinks and learns. Therefore, we do not need schools. We need shrines of learning where people can come and go as they please.”— John Holt
“Not the children of the rich or of the powerful only, but of all alike, boys and girls, both noble and ignoble, rich and poor, in all cities and towns, villages and hamlets, should be sent to school.”— John Amos Comenius
“School is a mother that receives her children from the arms of another mother, the family, to educate and instruct them.”— Edmondo De Amicis
“When I was in high school, I was a super bug, editor of the school newspaper. So I was not at all a popular girl.”— Joanne Woodward
“I was hopeless at school. I was very good at playing the fool and getting a laugh.”— Richard Briers
“You go to a great school not so much for knowledge as for arts and habits; for the habit of attention, for the art of expression, for the art of entering quickly into another person's thoughts.”— William Johnson Cory
“The school is the first social institution an individual is forced to attend. It is the first public experience of those who will be the public.”— Edgar Z. Friedenberg
“Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog.”— Doug Larson
“A millionbillionwillion miles from home Waiting for the bell to go. (To go where?)”— Roger McGough
“School is practice for the future, and practice makes perfect, but nobody's perfect, so why practice?”— Tré Cool