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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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.
Much learning does not teach understanding.
Much learning does not teach understanding.
Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll understand.
Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll understand.
When Honor's sun declines, and Wealth takes wings,
Then Learning shines, the best of precious things.
When Honor's sun declines, and Wealth takes wings,
Then Learning shines, the best of precious things.
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.
To the devil with those who published before us.
[Lat., Pereant qui ante nos nostra dixerunt.]
To the devil with those who published before us.
[Lat., Pereant qui ante nos nostra dixerunt.]
Knowing when to leave may be the smartest thing anyone can learn.
Knowing when to leave may be the smartest thing anyone can learn.
We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning read more
We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.
And wisely tell what hour o' th' day
The clock does strike by Algebra.
And wisely tell what hour o' th' day
The clock does strike by Algebra.
