Ayush Sinha

“I don't wish to give the impression that the cruelty of S-chools is a kind of bad or careless habit of which they might be cured, if people really wanted to cure them. Compulsory and competitive schools are cruel by their very nature.”
― John Holt, Instead of Education: Ways to Help People Do Things Better: Way to Help People Do Things Better

“Progressive teachers knew very well how to use the computer for their own ends as an instrument of change; School knew very well how to nip this subversion in the bud.”
― Seymour Papert, The Children's Machine: Rethinking School In The Age Of The Computer

“Incompetence has one other advantage. Not only does it reduce what others expect and demand of you, it reduces what you expect or even hope for yourself. When you set out to fail, one thing is certain-you can't be disappointed. As the old saying goes, you can't fall out of bed when you sleep on the door.”
― John Holt, How Children Fail

“Censorship, after all, is the tribute tyrants pay to the assumption that a public knows the difference between serious discourse and entertainment—and cares. How delighted would be all the kings, czars and führers of the past (and commissars of the present) to know that censorship is not a necessity when all political discourse takes the form of a jest.”
― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business