He took his passion, tried to change the system, and ran into a brick wall. It was a system that too many people were making money in, and no one wanted it changed.
My father sent me these seven quotes about the school system:
- Winston Churchill once said: “Personally, I am always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.”
- John Updike said: “The founding fathers, in their wisdom, decided that children were an unnatural strain on their parents. So they provided jails called school, equipped with tortures called education.”
- Norman Douglas said: “Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.”
- H. L. Mencken said: “School days, I believe, are the unhappiest in the whole span of human existence. They are full of dull, unintelligible tasks, new and unpleasant ordinances, and brutal violations of common sense and common decency.”
- Galileo said: “You cannot teach a person anything. You can only help him find it within himself.”
- Mark Twain said: “I never let schooling interfere with my education.”
- Albert Einstein said: “There is too much education altogether, especially in American schools.”
While the school system may have tried to kill my (and probably your) spirit, I LOVE learning.
It’s why I became a teacher… outside of the school syste
