#education

"(Cedric Price produced the Potteries Thinkbelt) ...project which questioned most of the cherished establishment premises of university education and substituted in their place their complete inversion."

"There are few things more pathetic than those who have lost their curiosity and sense of adventure, and who no longer care to learn."

"Science replaces private prejudice with public, verifiable evidence."

"We should never present flesh as somehow morally distinguishable from dairy. To the extent it is morally wrong to eat flesh, it is as morally wrong — and possibly more morally wrong — to consume dairy"

"A guidance counselor who has made a fetish of security, or who has unwittingly surrendered his thinking to economic determinism, may steer a youth away from his dream of becoming a poet, an artist, a musician or any other of thousands of things, because it offers no security, it does not pay well, there are no vacancies, it has no "future"."

"I have an 8th grade education. Of course, I also have a bachelor’s degree."

"Knowledge and wisdom comes from interaction-- not from inaction."

"Families are designed to nurture the minds, wills, and emotions of its members so that the barriers created by fear of the unknown can be replaced by the confidence that comes from knowing you are loved whether you succeed or fail."

"Great books make great being."

"We hear so often that we must read but what is more important and often not advised is to always think and question what we read.Reading, retaining and repeating is often called education. Wisdom is when we can read, question, adapt and apply what is relevant to the time and space in which we exist."

"Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age."

"Those who trust us educate us."

"Good work, like good talk or any other form of worthwhile human relationship, depends upon being able to assume an extended shared world."

"I've managed to bring the backlog down to a mere sixty-eight years,"she announced with some small sense of achievement. "I hope to be able to start marking the papers of pupils who are still alive by the end of the decade."

"Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants."

"For success, attitude is often more important than education."

"School prepares you for the real world... which also bites."

"Everywhere I go, I am asked if I think university stifles writers. My opinion is that it doesn't stifle enough of them."

"True patience is grounded in wisdom & compassion."

"Twelve-year-olds are eager to turn everything into arguments but don't have the cognitive skills to win them."