Education

A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool. Moliere.

The complexity of our present trouble suggests as never before that we need to change our present concept of education.

Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality. Beatrix Potter.

I had a professor one time… He said, ‘Class, you will forget almost everything I will teach you in here…

Education doesn’t make you happy. Nor does freedom. We don’t become happy just because we’re free – if we are.

Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.

Common sense is in spite of, not the result of, education. Victor Hugo.

When learning is purposeful, creativity blossoms. When creativity blossoms, thinking emanates.

School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is. Ivan Illich.

The purpose of education is not to validate ignorance but to overcome it. Lawrence Krauss.