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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.
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to read more
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.
Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
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.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed read more
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.
The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.
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.
If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is read more
If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around
I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up read more
I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
