"It is primarily through formal education that a culture tries to perpetuate the ideas it favors and discredit the ideas it fears."
Related:
- For better or worse, education is a process that involves revising the ideas,
beliefs, and values people held in the past... - Education with inert ideas is not only useless;
it is above all things harmful.
Alfred North... - IBM: Ideas
Bring... - Ideas are
duty free... - The clash of ideas is the sound of
freedom... - Ideas must work through the brains and arms of men,
or they are no better than dreams. -- Ralph Waldo... - The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.
Whitney...
From the same category:
- Truly profound thinkers and highly creative artists
are always out of step with their time and their society... - As long as people in a society are hungry or out of work or lack the basic skills needed to survive,
the use of public resources to support the arts is... - Facts are stubborn things. They cannot be altered by our wishes,
our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions... - The video camera provides such an accurate and convincing
record of contemporary life that it has become a more... - In order to improve the quality of instruction at the college and university level,
all faculty should be required to spend time working...
