Sunday, September 16, 2012

Thoughts on Education

Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.
    ~Norman Douglas

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
    ~Albert Einstein

If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.
    ~Norman Douglas

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
    ~B. F. Skinner

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
    ~Malcolm Forbes

I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated.
    ~Al McGuire

Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.
    ~Mark Twain

If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.
    ~Frank Zappa

Frank Zappa for the win

Monday, September 03, 2012

Teaching kids

"[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