Education

"The soul is perfected by knowledge and virtue." Thomas von Aquin

"Improve yourself by other men's writings thus attaining effortlessly what they acquired through great difficulty." Sokrates

"When one teaches, two learn." Robert A. Heinlein

"It is part of my thesis that all our knowledge grows only through the correcting of our mistakes." Karl Popper

"The indoctrination is so deep that educated people think they’re being objective." Noam Chomsky

"Education is a system of imposed ignorance." Noam Chomsky

"Universal education has created an immense class of what I may call the New Stupid, hungering for certainty yet unable to find it in the traditional myths and their rationalizations." Aldous Huxley

"To be well informed, one must read quickly a great number of merely instructive books. To be cultivated, one must read slowly and with a lingering appreciation the comparatively few books that have been written by men who lived, thought, and felt with style." Aldous Huxley

"All last year we tried to teach him (Fernando Valenzuela) English, and the only word he learned was million." Tommy Lasorda

"Don't just say you have read books. Show that through them you have learned to think better, to be a more discriminating and reflective person. Books are the training weights of the mind. They are very helpful, but it would be a bad mistake to suppose that one has made progress simply by having internalized their contents." Epiktet

"Children do not learn in school; they are babysat. It takes maybe 50 hours to teach reading, writing, and arithmetic. After that, students can teach themselves. Mainly what school does is to keep the children off the streets and out of the job market." John Taylor Gatto

"What's gotten in the way of education in the United States is a theory of social engineering that says there is ONE RIGHT WAY to proceed with growing up." John Taylor Gatto

"Everything depends on upbringing." Leo Tolstoi

"I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom." Umberto Eco