Henry David Thoreau Quote

When you've grown up mis-educated, surrounded by fear and hate, unaware of your privilege, lies can sound like the truth.

Most schooling is training for stupidity and conformity, and that's institutional, but occasionally you get a spark, somebody'll challenge your mind, make you think and so on, and that has a tremendou...

You can be an expert any field of study with consistent effort and consistent learning.

I regard monotheism as the greatest disaster ever to befall the human race. I see no good in Judaism, Christianity, or Islam -- good people, yes, but any religion based on a single, well, frenzied and...

All systems of the society are meant to serve the mind, not the mind to serve the systems.

There is nothing to be gained by pretending that academic involvement is necessary, or even always desirable, in the quest for truth and knowledge.

There is a system alright, but the actual element of education has long gone.

if education doesn't solve a problem, then it is a problem; If the educated do not solve problems, then they are the problems.

Our education system often teaches us how to conform more than how to wonder and venture.

Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results.