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I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.

— Anne Sullivan

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.

— Alexandre Dumas

I think children learn from example. I don't believe in raising them in an authoritative atmosphere.

— Kent McCord

There's something in this country that is so opposed to understanding the complexity of children.

— Maurice Sendak

Almost everyone who has claimed to know what kids need to learn or how they learn has turned out to be wrong.

— John Katzman

Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.

— Ernest Dimnet

Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.

— Clarence Darrow

Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.

— Karl Kraus

As somebody who visits countless schools, I see firsthand the dire situation our educational system faces.

— Jarrett J. Krosoczka

Children are very smart, in their own stupid way. A child's brain is like a sponge, and you know how smart sponges are.

— Steve Carell

My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.

— Robert M. Hutchins

✗Opposing Perspectives

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