If you force the intellectual development to begin prematurely, you are setting in motion something that has already been mapped out to occur at a certain time and in an organized and developed pattern. There is an unfolding taking place in the child's development and you should not hasten this unfolding anymore than you would want to hasten the unfolding of a flower.
- Paraphrased from Hamza Yusuf's lecture: Classical vs. Modern Education

I am going to talk to you about childishness. and the real mystery of how America makes it a principal support of our economic and social order. Creating and enforcing childishness is what American schooling has been about for a century.
- Paraphrased from John Taylor Gattos' talk: The Short Angry History of Modern Education