Education

"Keynes did not teach us how to perform the miracle of turning a stone into bread, but the not at all miraculous procedure of eating the seed corn." Ludwig von Mises

"The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language." Alan Kay

"Education in our times must try to find whatever there is in students that might yearn for completion, and to reconstruct the learning that would enable them autonomously to seek that completion." Allan Bloom

"To accuse others for one's own misfortune is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete." Epiktet

"Only the educated are free." Epiktet

"The primary goal of real education is not to deliver facts but to guide students to the truths that will allow them to take responsibility for their lives." John Taylor Gatto

"School is the first impression children get of organized society. Like most first impressions it is the lasting one. Life is dull and stupid, only Coke provides relief. And other products, too, of course." John Taylor Gatto

"When you take the free will out of education, that turns it into schooling." John Taylor Gatto

"There isn't a right way to become educated; there are as many ways as there are fingerprints." John Taylor Gatto

"Teaching is a function, not a profession. Anything with something to offer can teach." John Taylor Gatto

"The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not." Aldous Huxley

"Schools [are]...institutions monopolizing the daytimes of childhood." John Taylor Gatto

"Whatever your goal in life, the beginning is knowledge and experience" Henry Ford

"Any man can learn anything he will, but no man can teach except to those who want to learn." Henry Ford