Education

"Whether you want to uncover the secrets of the universe, or you just want to pursue a career in the 21st century, basic computer programming is an essential skill to learn." Stephen W. Hawking

"It is really an alienation to believe that learning is the result of teaching." Ivan Illich

"School divides life into two segments, which are increasingly of comparable length. As much as anything else, schooling implies custodial care for persons who are declared undesirable elsewhere by the simple fact that a school has been built to serve them." Ivan Illich

"Through the computer, the heralds say, we will make education better, religion better, politics better, our minds better — best of all, ourselves better. This is, of course, nonsense, and only the young or the ignorant or the foolish could believe it." Neil Postman

"It is an obvious and blatant stupidity beyond my ability to articulate how dumb it is for us not to teach our children how to run the government." Richard Dreyfuss

"There is one solution to all of our problems: Teaching our kids clarity of thought and political representation in democracy. That's it." Richard Dreyfuss

"Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important." Bill Gates

"The business of a scientific school is the dissemination of useful knowledge, and this is a noble enterprise and indispensable withal; society can not exist unless it goes on." Albert Jay Nock

"I read books and talked to people. I mean that's kind of how one learns anything. There's lots of great books out there & lots of smart people." Elon Musk

"An education, other than purely professional or technical, can even seem to be an impediment." Allan Bloom

"The importance of these [college] years for an American cannot be overestimated. They are civilization's only chance to get to him." Allan Bloom

"There is no way to help a learner to be disciplined, active, and thoroughly engaged unless he perceives a problem to be a problem or whatever is to-be-learned as worth learning, and unless he plays an active role in determining the process of solution." Neil Postman

"The problem isn't that Johnny can't read. The problem isn't even that Johnny can't think. The problem is that Johnny doesn't know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling." Thomas Sowell

"The most important thing you learn at school is that learning only happens by being taught." Ivan Illich