I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don't teach you how to walk away from someone you don't love any longer. They don't teach you how to know what's going on in someone else's mind. They don't teach you what to say to someone who's dying. They don't teach you anything worth knowing.
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Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology.
Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology.
I've known countless people who were reservoirs of learning, yet never had a thought.
I've known countless people who were reservoirs of learning, yet never had a thought.
Learn avidly. Question repeatedly what you have learned.
Analyze it carefully. Then put what you have learned into
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Learn avidly. Question repeatedly what you have learned.
Analyze it carefully. Then put what you have learned into
practice intelligently.
The first problem for all of us men and women is not to learn, but to unlearn.
The first problem for all of us men and women is not to learn, but to unlearn.
Grades are a problem. On the most general level, they're an explicit acknowledgment that what you're doing is insufficiently interesting read more
Grades are a problem. On the most general level, they're an explicit acknowledgment that what you're doing is insufficiently interesting or rewarding for you to do it on your own. Nobody ever gave you a grade for learning how to play, how to ride a bicycle, or how to kiss. One of the best ways to destroy love for any of these activities would be through the use of grades, and the coercion and judgment they represent. Grades are a cudgel to bludgeon the unwilling into doing what they don't want to do, an important instrument in inculcating children into a lifelong subservience to whatever authority happens to be thrust over them.
The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.
The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.
I pay the schoolmaster but 'tis the schoolboys who educate my son.
I pay the schoolmaster but 'tis the schoolboys who educate my son.
What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing.
What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing.
