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A college education shows a man how little other people know.
A college education shows a man how little other people know.
How can we hope to remain economically competitive in a world in which...90% of Dutch high-school students take advanced math read more
How can we hope to remain economically competitive in a world in which...90% of Dutch high-school students take advanced math courses and 100% of teachers in Germany have double majors, while the best we can say about our "pocket of excellence" is that 75% of [American] students have learned to "critique tactfully?" -Barbara J. Alexander.
Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten.
Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten.
Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing. The rest is mere sheep herding.
Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing. The rest is mere sheep herding.
It is with children that we have the best chance of studying the development of logical knowledge, mathematical knowledge, physical read more
It is with children that we have the best chance of studying the development of logical knowledge, mathematical knowledge, physical knowledge, and so forth.
Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every read more
Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it. -Sir William Haley.
Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive;
easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive;
easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
