learning

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.