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“One of the professors told me last week that he feels bad teaching with the way the economy is now. Whats the point? he said. Kids arent getting jobs. You never hear faculty talk that way. He did.”
“Education makes your maths better, not necessarily your manners.”
“The goal of argumentation is to make a case so forceful (note the metaphor) that skeptics are coerced into believing itthey are powerless to deny it while still claiming to be rational. In principl...”
“If only we were all better educated. If then, higher education would at last be a journey for skill and knowledge rather than for power and status.”
“As clich as it might sound, I'd rather lose than win by cheating. The latter is a much deeper, more personal loss in that one is admittedly whispering to himself his lack of competence. His cheatin...”
“The courageous testimony of Dr. Faust that a maiden's smile is more precious than history, philosophy, education, religion, law, politics,economics, and all the other branches of learning. Learning...”
“being genius does not necessarily means knowing it all or having the highest academic qualification but a persons ability to apply wisdom and common sense to common things in a distinctive manner a...”
“If you want to find the real competition, just look in the mirror. After awhile you'll see your rivals scrambling for second place.”
“Have you noticed how the cleverest people at school are not those who make it in life?People who are conventionally clever get jobs on their qualifications (the past), not on their desire to succee...”
“This is not education my friend. It is a process of manufacturing computation devices that look like Homo sapiens, and thereby falsely labeled as Education.”
“Life is not only about acquiring knowledge, it is about applying knowledge.”
“Knowledge was scattered treasure, education organized it into art, commerce and science.”
“This irritated or puzzled such students of literature and their professors as were accustomed to serious courses replete with trends and schools and myths and symbols and social comment and so...”
“Copywriters, journalists, mainstream authors, ghostwriters, bloggers and advertising creatives have as much right to think of themselves as good writers as academics, poets, or literary novelists.”
“PISA was developed by a kind of think tank for the developed world, called the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, and the scientist at the center of the experiment was Andreas ...”
“Through most of human history, our ancestors had children shortly after puberty, just as the members of all nonhuman species do to this day. Whether we like the idea or not, our young ancestors mus...”
“It was a time when a degree was expected but not much respected.”
“Schooling that children are forced to endurein which the subject matter is imposed by others and the learning is motivated by extrinsic rewards and punishments rather than by the childrens true int...”
“I am successful because of my brains and my guts, put together, and I don't need some fancy-ass degree from a bunch of sweater-vest-wearing pricks who haven't gotten laid since Bush Senior was pres...”
“Theres no logical connection between being smart and having money.”
