"Public school - where the human mind is drilled and manipulated into submission to various social and moral spooks, and thus fitted to continue our system of exploitation and oppression."

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Source : Emma Goldman, Candace Falk, Barry Pateman, Jessica M. Moran (2004). “Emma Goldman: Making speech free, 1902-1909”, p.238, Univ of California Press

Emma Goldman

#School Quotes #Mind Quotes #Moral Quotes

“I did one year of school and I was doing correspondence school, which was actually another happy accident. Correspondence school is basically home school, but you teach yourself instead of your parents teaching you. I found that to be one of the most important things in my life is that I learned how to teach myself things. I feel like that's something that schools should actually teach.”

Source : Source: thequietus.com
“Natural ability and educational advantages do not figure as factors in this matter of prayer; but a capacity for faith, the power of a thorough consecration, the ability of self-littleness, an absolute losing of one's self in God's glory and an ever present and insatiable yearning and seeking after all the fullness of God.”
“And in their motions harmony divine So smoothes her charming tones, that God's own ear Listens delighted.”
“Iggy' was my dog - he was named after Iggy Pop - and 'Azalea' is the street where I grew up; together, they have the right amount of syllables to make the perfect name.”
“So many of the chemical reactions occurring in living systems have been shown to be catalytic processes occurring isothermally on the surface of specific proteins, referred to as enzymes, that it seems fairly safe to assume that all are of this nature and that the proteins are the necessary basis for carrying out the processes that we call life.”
“my boyfriend is a rock god baby (and not kiss-of-death(sorry))”
“One of the most powerful ways to keep people controlled is to use faith or guns or both.”
“Anarchism is a theory of political science and is opposed to government in the political sense.”

Source : "To Anarchists". "Ithaca Journal", September 17, 1901.

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