education

"No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete."

"Those who trust us educate us."

"It is among the commonplaces of education that we often first cut off the living root and then try to replace its natural functions by artificial means. Thus we suppress the child's curiosity and then when he lacks a natural interest in learning he is offered special coaching for his scholastic coaching for his scholastic difficulties."

"Even those who do not, or cannot, avail themselves of a scientific education, choose to benefit from the technology that is made possible by the scientific education of others."

"Education helps you to be what you really want to be."

"If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library."

"education is one thing and instruction, however worthy, necessary and incidentally or monetarily educative, another."

"Books have to be read (worse luck, for it takes a long time); it is the only way of discovering what they contain."

"I am different, not less."

"We need to eliminate the concept of division by class, skills, race, income, religion, and nationality. Every human requires food and water to survive and every human has a heart that bleeds, loves, and grieves."

"A long list of propositions does not necessarily make a coherent argument"

"Orang yang baca banyak buku kayak kamu dan menguasai sejarah nggak mungkin bodoh. Kamu cuma sial karena hidup di tempat dan waktu yang salah. Tempat dan waktu ketika kamu dianggap bodoh kalau kamu nggak pintar dalam hal yang namanya sains."

"Wisdom.... comes not from age, but from education and learning."

"So what indeed! The lesson I myself learned over and over again when teaching at the college and then the prison was the uselessness of information to most people, except as entertainment. If facts weren't funny or scary, or couldn't make you rich, the heck with them."

"The world of book is the stream of souls."

"Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it."

"Teachers are the one and only people who save nations."

"To say that a being who is sentient has no interest in continuing to live is like saying that a being with eyes has no interest in continuing to see. Death—however “humane”—is a harm for humans and nonhumans alike."

"A library is a place where you learn what teachers were afraid to teach you."

"What is the matter with universities is that the students are school children, whereas it is of the very essence of university education that they should be adults."