![[The] erroneous assumption is to the effect that the aim of public education is to fill the young of the species with knowledge and awaken their intelligence, and so make them fit to discharge the duties of citizenship in an enlightened and independent manner. Nothing could be further from the truth. The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed and train a standardised citizenry, to put down dissent and originality.](/assets/img/quote-photos/the-erroneous-assumption-is-to-the-effect-that-the-aim-of-public-education-is-t.jpg)
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The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder. Ralph W. Sockman
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A society that fears knowledge is a society that fears itself. Bernard Beckett
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Pure mathematics consists entirely of assertions to the effect that, if such and such a proposition is true of anything, then suchand such another proposition is true of that thing.... Thus mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true. Bertrand Russell
knowledge inference knows
Whatever we know without inference is mental.
knowledge historical elements
History is valuable, to begin with, because it is true; and this, though not the whole of its value, is the foundation and condition of all the rest. That all knowledge, as such, is in some degree good, would appear to be at least probable; and the knowledge of every historical fact possesses this element of goodness, even if it posses no other.
knowledge science perception
All that passes for knowledge can be arranged in a hierarchy of degrees of certainty, with arithmetic and the facts of perception at the top.
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the advancement and diffusion of knowledge and understanding. Andrew Carnegie
knowledge soon walk
We have the knowledge and want to help. As soon as you walk in the door, we'll get to know you.
knowledge true
To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge. Henry David Thoreau
independent persons
I like being independent; I like doing things myself. I'm an instinctual person. Cathy Moriarty
independent thinking trying
Be independent and don't try to think someone is going to save you or look to someone else to make you happy or look to someone else to complete you. Bethenny Frankel
independent thinking hinduism-and-buddhism
In Hinduism, conscience, reason and independent thinking have no scope for development. B. R. Ambedkar
independent men needs
I always knew the woman I wanted to be-I knew I wanted to be a woman who was independent a woman who was in the driving seat, a woman who didn't need for the man to decide. Diane von Furstenberg
independent dark pieces
Id like to do an action film or a dark sort of independent piece. Devon Sawa
independent exercise creative
Exercise free will and creative, independent thought not for the satisfactions they will bring you, but for the good they will do others, the rest of the 6.8 billion–and those who will follow them. And then you too will discover the great and curious truth of the human experience is that selflessness is the best thing you can do for yourself. The sweetest joys of life, then, come only with the recognition that you’re not special. Because everyone is. David McCullough
independent needs aliens
So dance music is now pop music. So now, as a dance producer, what do I have to do? So I'm starting to do alien music, because pop is not pop anymore; we need to go alien to be independent. David Guetta
independent fate men
Any contemporary political re-statement of liberal and socialist goals must include as central the idea of a society in which all men would become men of substantive reason, whose independent reasoning would have structural consequences for their societies, its history and thus for their own life fates. C. Wright Mills
independent vision kind
For me, whether or not a film has some kind of massive budget or is an independent film, or however it's getting made, it's always about the filmmaker and, hopefully, being a vessel for the filmmaker's vision. That's what really attracts me to projects. Bryce Dallas Howard
enlightenment awakening recognition
Enlightenment or awakening is not the creation of a new state of affairs but the recognition of what already is. Alan Watts
enlightenment needs inward
We need to learn that truth consists not in correct doctrine, but in correct doctrine plus the inward enlightenment of the Holy Spirit. Aiden Wilson Tozer
enlightenment want trouble
The trouble with Westerners is that they want to witness their own enlightenment. Chogyam Trungpa
enlightenment sanity ifs
If we really prefer basic sanity or enlightenment, it's irritatingly possible to get into it.
enlightenment contamination
Cultural contamination that is directed outward is always seen as ‘enlightenment. David Brin
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Nonresistance, nonjudgment, and nonattachment are the three aspects of true freedom and enlightened living. Eckhart Tolle
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enlightenment sacred steps
No single step in the persuit of enlightenment should ever be considered sacred; only the search was. Ann Druyan
enlightenment way obstacles
Life is not about focusing on the obstacles. It's about how you handle them, and whether you get enlightenment or levity from the way you do it Drew Barrymore