In case it is not obvious, whilst many of these quotations are consistent with Taking Children Seriously, many of them are not. Sometimes it is just interesting that that person said it, or it is interesting for some other reason.
“Many students, especially those who are poor, intuitively know what schools do for them. They school them to confuse process and substance. . . . The pupil is thereby ‘schooled’ to confuse teaching with learning, grade advancement with education, a diploma with competence, and fluency with the ability to say something new.”
– Ivan Illich, Deschooling Society, Chapter 1, p. 1
“School is an institution built on the axiom that learning is the result of teaching. And institutional wisdom continues to accept this axiom, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary.”
– Ivan Illich, 1970, Deschooling Society, p. 42
Return to alphabetical index of Quotations pages
Taking Children Seriously, ‘Quotations I’, https://takingchildrenseriously.com/quotations/