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The best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts at education.
The best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts at education.
An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and read more
An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.
Impartially their talents scan,
Just education forms the man.
- John Gay,
Impartially their talents scan,
Just education forms the man.
- John Gay,
There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.
There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.
A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.
A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.
If little else, the brain is an educational toy.
If little else, the brain is an educational toy.
Let the soldier be abroad if he will, he can do nothing in this
age. There is another personage,--a read more
Let the soldier be abroad if he will, he can do nothing in this
age. There is another personage,--a personage less imposing in
the eyes of some, perhaps insignificant. The schoolmaster is
abroad, and I trust to him, armed with his primer, against the
soldier, in full military array.
The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think - rather to read more
The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think - rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men.
Good education, housing and jobs are imperatives for the Negroes, and I shall support them in their fight to win read more
Good education, housing and jobs are imperatives for the Negroes, and I shall support them in their fight to win these objectives, but I shall tell the Negroes that while these are necessary, they cannot solve the main Negro problem.
