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The best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts at education.
The best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts at education.
Education is a progressive discovery of our ignorance.
Education is a progressive discovery of our ignorance.
Life at university, with its intellectual and inconclusive discussions at a postgraduate level is on the whole a bad training read more
Life at university, with its intellectual and inconclusive discussions at a postgraduate level is on the whole a bad training for the real world. Only men of very strong character surmount this handicap.
A school should not be a preparation for life. A school should be life.
A school should not be a preparation for life. A school should be life.
Never stop learning; knowledge doubles every fourteen months. -Anthony J. D'Angelo.
Never stop learning; knowledge doubles every fourteen months. -Anthony J. D'Angelo.
There is no virtue in being uncritical; nor is it a habit to which the young are given. But criticism read more
There is no virtue in being uncritical; nor is it a habit to which the young are given. But criticism is only the burying beetle that gets rid of what is dead, and, since the world lives by creative and constructive forces, and not by negation and destruction, it is better to grow up in the company of prophets than of critics.
Violent can be sound and light
in waking us from sleep of night.
Gently comes the dawn's twilight
Each step read more
Violent can be sound and light
in waking us from sleep of night.
Gently comes the dawn's twilight
Each step taken oh so slight.
No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's read more
No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.
You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could do for themselves.
You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could do for themselves.
