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Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
Henry Brooks Adams, The Education of Henry Adams, 1907 -
It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
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I’m frightened of people who believe in just one story. The advantage of studying literature is that you learn many stories, philosophy, history, etc. You learn that we have commonalities of strangeness and secrets with our fellow humans. Because of many stories, we are that much more open to otherness.
Posted on June 13, 2012 via W. W. Norton & Company with 538 notes
Source: wwnorton
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We’ve bought into the idea that education is about training and “success”, defined monetarily, rather than learning to think critically and to challenge. We should not forget that the true purpose of education is to make minds, not careers. A culture that does not grasp the vital interplay between morality and power, which mistakes management techniques for wisdom, which fails to understand that the measure of a civilization is its compassion, not its speed or ability to consume, condemns itself to death.
Chris Hedges, Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle(via theantidote)
Posted on June 13, 2012 via yan with 84 notes
Source: huiyan
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All that concerns itself with beauty and truth, with those forces that have the power to transform us, are being steadily extinguished by our corporate state. Art. Education. Literature. Music. Theater. Dance. Poetry. Philosophy. Religion. Journalism. None of these disciplines are worthy in the corporate state of support or compensation. These are pursuits that, even in our universities, are condemned as impractical. But it is only through the impractical, through that which can empower our imagination, that we will be rescued as a species.
Chris Hedges(via adreamcontrolled)
Posted on May 6, 2012 via The American Bear with 129 notes
Source: commondreams.org
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I have read my books by many lights, hoarding their beauty, their wit or wisdom against the dark days when I would have no book, nor a place to read. I have known hunger of the belly kind many times over, but I have known a worse hunger: the need to know and to learn.
- Louis L’Amour,Education of a Wandering Man
(via teacoffeebooks)
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A real education takes place, not in the lecture hall or library, but in the rooms of friends, with earnest frolic and happy disputation.
— Stephen Fry
(via illbedancingwithmyself)
Posted on August 29, 2011 via Lost Splendor with 431 notes
Source: I Can Has Cheezburger?
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I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.
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Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
Posted on August 1, 2011 via ramblings with 61 notes
Source: goodreads.com
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Excerpt from What to Do till the Undertaker Comes
by Richard Mitchell
Posted on July 6, 2011 via Reflejos with 4 notes
Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why. -- Kurt Vonnegut
He stretched out his arms to the crystalline, radiant sky.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
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