What Einstein, Twain, and Forty Eight Other Creative People Had to Say About Schooling

[Lillian J]

Article in Psychology Today:

What Einstein, Twain, and Forty Eight Other Creative People Had to Say About Schooling

[ollyoxenfree]

Fascinating quotes. I'm not sure why this is posted in the Learning at Home/Unschooling forums though? Shouldn't an article about school be in the Learning at School forum?? 

[kathymuggle]

Most of the quotes are not pro school.  I wonder if it would create a hornets nest?  

OTOH, it could generate an interesting discussion of how schools might have changed and if creative/brilliant minds belong in school (another place for it might be the gifted forum).

[Lillian J]

Originally Posted by ollyoxenfree 

Fascinating quotes. I'm not sure why this is posted in the Learning at Home/Unschooling forums though? Shouldn't an article about school be in the Learning at School forum?? 

There are always people coming into this forum wondering whether homeschooling is a good idea, whether their children will be missing out on important things, etc.  - this provides some food for thought in that these comments come from some perfectly successful people. I think it could be taken as insulting to post it in a forum where people have pretty much made a choice for schooling.   - Lillian

[Lillian J]

Originally Posted by kathymuggle 

Most of the quotes are not pro school.  I wonder if it would create a hornets nest?  

OTOH, it could generate an interesting discussion of how schools might have changed and if creative/brilliant minds belong in school (another place for it might be the gifted forum).

Only if posted by someone who is not a homeschooler - it would have to be initiated by someone who is intimately involved with schools already. I'm most definitely interested in that subject - most children go to school, and we're all in this together, in my opinion, but I don't necessarily qualify as someone who has any business trying to initiate the conversation, because my child was not in school after 1st grade.   - Lillian

[Lillian J]

Originally Posted by Lillian J 

There are always people coming into this forum wondering whether homeschooling is a good idea, whether their children will be missing out on important things, etc.  - this provides some food for thought in that these comments come from some perfectly successful people. I think it could be taken as insulting to post it in a forum where people have pretty much made a choice for schooling.   - Lillian

And, by the way, I meant "successful" in terms of being recognizable and well known in their fields, which is the kind of thing that someone just beginning to consider homeschooling can readily appreciate.  - Lillian

[Cyllya]

Nice list.

I think they're using at least two different definitions of "education" among those quotes. It seems some of them treat the word as synonymous with schooling, while others act like education is a good thing but that it's independent of schooling.
 

Originally Posted by ollyoxenfree 

Fascinating quotes. I'm not sure why this is posted in the Learning at Home/Unschooling forums though? Shouldn't an article about school be in the Learning at School forum?? 

The whole concept of unschooling is that school is not the be-all-end-all super-important Big Enchilada with which you absolutely must start your life or else (hence the name). With that in mind, I think these are all unschooling-related quotes. Except the Stalin one, I guess.

Besides, it's on a largely unschooling-related blog.