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August 31, 2008

Regarding Education

To kick off the school year, I would like to share several quotes I find very insightful.

Albert Einstein:

Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.
(source)


Thomas Young, in a letter to his brother:

Although I have readily fallen in with the idea of assisting you in your learning, yet [there] is in reality very little that a person who is seriously and industriously disposed to improve may not obtain from books with more advantage than from a living instructor… Masters and mistresses are very necessary to compensate for want of inclination and exertion: but whoever would arrive at excellence must be self-taught.
(source - I transcribed that paragraph from my copy of the book.)


Ludwig von Mises:

It is not generally realized that education can never be more than indoctrination with theories and ideas already developed. Education, whatever benefits it may confer, is transmission of traditional doctrines and valuations; it is by necessity conservative. It produces imitation and routine, not improvement and progress. Innovators and creative geniuses cannot be reared in schools. They are precisely the men who defy what the school has taught them. (Human Action, c15, s11)
(h/t lowercase liberty)


Socrates:

I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
(source)

See you kids in the classroom.

Wulf Posted by Wulf on August 31, 2008 at 10:34 PM

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