Education
The power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous.
Richard Feynman
The purpose of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible.
Woodrow Wilson
Though I am uneducated in the traditional sense, I’m a voracious reader. I believe that if you read widely and densely enough, you’ll pick up a smidgeon of good grammar just through osmosis.
Course title every university should offer: "How to tell when someone else is full of shit"
Neil deGrasse Tyson
The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.
Stephen Hawking
I don’t find the school system conducive to education.
Helen Mirren
He that boasts of his own knowledge proclaims his ignorance.
Gene Ambaum and Bill Barnes
I’m just going to have to look at them over my imaginary librarian glasses and tell them “No. You’re wrong. Go back to school, kid, you need to remember you’re sharing the world with adults and there is a consensual reality you have entered into. You don’t get to make it up from scratch any more than I did.”
Someone on the internet.
The tax which will be paid for the purpose of education is not more than the thousandth part of what will be paid to kings, priests, and nobles who will rise up among us if we leave the people in ignorance.
Thomas Jefferson
When you ask for answers and you get your answers, then you bypass the search for patterns. And patterns are where you find the answers, and the search is where you do the learning.
Caulfield
Answer the question—not the thing in your head.
Eddie Woo
There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that “my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge”.
Isaac Asimov
If the function of universities is to train students to think, then part of that training must consist of deciding for the benefit of students themselves which ideas are worth considering and which are not. The idea that all ideas are worth considering is, from both a logical and, far more important, practical point of view, self-contradictory nonsense.
Paul Campos
Education is a strong force, but for either good or evil.
Richard Feynman
Education should not be intended to make people comfortable, it is meant to make them think.
Hanna Holborn Gray