The only persons who seem to have nothing to do with the education of the children are the parents.

G. K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World, (p. 308)

The greatest harm done by schools and departments of education is not in what they teach or fail to teach those who are studying to become educators. Their greatest harm is in creating mind-numbing mumbo-jumbo that drives out good people the way bad money drives out the good.

Thomas Sowell, in syndicated column, December, 1995

Thank you, Barbara Anderson (Colorado) and Gertrude Zvonar (Maryland), respectively, for bringing these quotes to our attention.

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