Saturday 27 April 2013

Education....Power


Hanging around until you've caught on.
Robert Lee Frost (1874-1963) American poet.
One of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.
Bertrand A. Russell (1872-1970) English philosopher, mathematician, and writer.
Man's going forward from cocksure ignorance to thoughtful uncertainty.
Kenneth G. Johnson (1922-2002) American educator, semanticist.

A form of self-delusion.
Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915) American author, editor and printer.

[A process] which makes one rogue cleverer than another.
Oscar Wilde (1856-1900) Irish poet and dramatist.

The inculcation of the incomprehensible into the ignorant by the incompetent.
Josiah Charles Stamp (1880-1941) British civil servant, industrialist, economist, statistician and banker.

[Education] consists mainly in what we have unlearned.
Mark Twain (1835-1910) American writer.

Education is what remains when we have forgotten all that we have been taught.
George Savile, Marquis of Halifax (1633-1695) English statesman and author.

Education is a progressive discovery of our ignorance.
Will Durant (1885-1981) U.S. author and historian.


A succession of eye-openers each involving the repudiation of some previously held belief.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) British dramatist, critic, writer.

Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.
Norman Douglas (1868-1952) British writer.

Education is the process of casting false pearls before real swine.
Prof. Irwin Edman (1896–1954) American philosopher and educator.

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