Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra Children are not yet fools, but we shall turn them into imbeciles like ourselves, with high I.Q.'s if possible. It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results. The wish to preserve the past rather than the hope of creating the future dominates the minds of those who control the teaching of the young. Who's knowledge grew lesser and lesser. And now he's a College Professor.
Education makes machines which act like men and produces men who act like machines.
It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook. Henry David Thoreau Return to 11. The Student Centered Classroom Quotations Wilton High School Chemistry Let us know what you think.