educational quotes

Persons grouped around a fire or candle for warmth or light are less able to pursue independent thoughts, or even tasks, than people supplied with electric light. In the same way, the social and educational patterns latent in automation are those of self-employment and artistic autonomy.

- (Herbert) Marshall McLuhan
  Understanding Media, ch.33.

I think modern educational theorists are inclined to attachtoomuch importancetothenegative virtue of not interfering with children, and too little to the positive merit of enjoying their company.

- Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell
  In Praise of Idleness,'Education and Discipline'.

To state as clearly as may be what means lie readyto develop a property-owning democracy, to bring the industrial and economic status of the wage-earner abreast of his political and educational status, to make democracy stable and four-square.

- (Archibald) Noel Skelton
  In The Spectator,19 May.