Free Education Quotes

“Education is the way out of the poverty trap. It shouldn't be the poverty trap itself and make those trying to better themselves incur massive student debt.”
― Stewart Stafford

“Le peuple savait depuis longtemps où chercher, ailleurs que dans ces pénitenciers officiels, la culture et l'éducation dont il avait besoin dans sa lutte contre le règne vermoulu de la bourgeoisie, et les moineaux sifflaient sur les toits que notre type d'école, tel qu'il est issu de l'école monastique du Moyen Âge, constituait un anachronisme et une vieillerie ridicule, que personne au monde ne devait plus sa culture proprement dite à l'école, et qu'un enseignement libre et accessible à tous par des conférences publiques, par des expositions et par le cinéma était infiniment supérieur à tout enseignement scolaire.”
― Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain

“We wonder why we get credits only to be indebted”
― Goitsemang Mvula

“Knowledge aloof from people,
locked shut behind paywall,
bears no significance in society,
holds no worth whatsoever.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Little Planet on The Prairie: Dunya Benim, Sorumluluk Benim

“Knowledge aloof from people,
locked shut behind paywall,
bears no significance in society,
holds no worth whatsoever.

Light accessible only to select elites,
is not light, but filth uncivilized.
Paywall is a violation of knowledge,
it vilifies the sanctity of human light.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Little Planet on The Prairie: Dunya Benim, Sorumluluk Benim

“Ivy and Rose's favorite spot in the cottage was the library, and there were trinkets and talismans hidden behind all the books they loved most. Those numbered in the hundreds, and they were rarely without one. Back in those days, no one cared if girls went to school, so Ivy and Rose were free to learn what they thought was necessary. If Ivy discovered the diary of a medieval botanist--- or a dusty grimoire with ancient symbols scribbled in the margins--- she could go an entire week without speaking. No one in her family minded at all. Rose, whose taste in books leaned toward romance and poetry, was happy to speak for the both of them.”
― Kirsten Miller, The Women of Wild Hill