“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
― Mark Twain
“Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.”
― Walter Cronkite
“Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.”
― Mark Twain
“The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.”
― C.S. Lewis
“If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.”
― Frank Zappa
“The best thing for being sad,” replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, “is to learn something. That’s the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then — to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn.”
― T.H. White, The Once and Future King
“Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.”
― C.S. Lewis
“[Kids] don’t remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.”
― Jim Henson, It’s Not Easy Being Green: And Other Things to Consider
“Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.”
― Leonardo da Vinci
Eddie says:
The greatest revolution in education that has ever taken place is happening right now.
It is not happening in the public schools or in the universities.
Rather it is happening anywhere and everywhere in the world, every time someone logs on to Youtube to view a clip demonstrating the correct way to….fix a car, plant a garden, wire a solar panel, play a particular piece of music,or mix a batch of sugar water to feed a beehive.
For the first time in history, information is being successfully passed on from a teacher who wants to teach, to a student who wants to learn, bypassing every bit of the traditional hierarchy, which most of us always considered inefficient but necessary.
There is very little being taught in any institutional setting that cannot be learned faster and better watching a good demo on your own computer, on your own time.
And it’s free.
School’s out….forever. The educational hierarchy just hasn’t figured it out yet.
—-Eddie, 2012
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21st October 2012 at 1:41 pm
Buddabull says:
My God Father always preached education. His greatest saying was “Teach Yourself” This was from a man who was a prisoner of war in the Russian revolution.
My grandfather’s favorite saying was ” To know is better than not knowing”. This was from a man at the age of 16 came to America on a boat by himself. I don’t think they build them like that anymore.
I carry many lessons from these two great men to this day.
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21st October 2012 at 2:07 pm