Education

"Learning is like rowing against the current. As soon as you stop, you drift back." Laotse

"That’s the good thing about a mistake: you don’t have to make it twice." Thomas Alva Edison

"I am not discouraged because every failed attempt is another step forward." Thomas Alva Edison

"I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward" Thomas Alva Edison

"A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones." Philip Dormer Stanhop, Lord Chesterfield

"One reason that freedom of speech is so important is that doubt is the foundation of science." Naval Ravikant

"It requires a high degree of mastery to turn the sword of truth against oneself in order to free oneself from one's own blindness." Unbekannter Verfasser

"When all experts agree, you need to watch out." Bertrand Russell

"Give me just one generation of youth, and I'll transform the whole world." Wladimir Iljitsch Lenin

"If you want to assert a truth, first make sure it’s not just an opinion that you desperately want to be true." Neil deGrasse Tyson

"The conviction that it is important to believe this or that, even if a free inquiry would not support the belief, is one which is common to almost all religions and which inspires all systems of state education...A habit of basing convictions upon evidence, and of giving to them only that degree of certainty which the evidence warrants, would, if it became general, cure most of the ills from which the world is suffering. But at present, in most countries, education aims at preventing the growth of such a habit, and men who refuse to profess belief in some system of unfounded dogmas are not considered suitable as teachers of the young… The world that I should wish to see would be one freed from the virulence of group hostilities and capable of realizing that happiness for all is to be derived rather from cooperation than from strife. I should wish to see a world in which education aimed at mental freedom rather than at imprisoning the minds of the young in a rigid armor of dogma calculated to protect them through life against the shafts of impartial evidence. The world needs open hearts and open minds, and it is not through rigid systems, whether old or new, that these can be derived." Bertrand Russell

"Every culture institutionalizes certain forms of behavior that communicate and encourage certain forms of thinking and acting, thus moulding the character of its citizens. To the degree that the individual is made an object of constant mental manipulation, to the degree that cultural institutions may tend to weaken intellectual and spiritual strength, to the degree that knowledge of the mind is used to tame and condition people instead of educating them, to that degree does the culture itself produce men and women who are predisposed to accept an authoritarian way of life." Joost A.M. Meerloo

"You can’t do anything violent humanely." James Wildman

"Enthusiasm is fertiliser for the brain." Gerald Hüther