Menu

Education

 

‘Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.’
George Orwell.

'It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.'
Albert Einstein 

'Education... has produced a vast population,
Able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.'
G.M. Trevelyan

'Imagination is more important than knowledge.'
Albert Einstein
 
'There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.'
James Truslow Adams

‘The schools have ceased to be places of education, they have ceased to be places with a human face and soul and instead they have become rather like factories in some distant nightmare, turning out long rows of identical pre-programmed robots to serve a human race that has long vanished from the face of the globe.’
Let Not My Country Die. Dr Credo Mutwa

‘We know that you highly esteem the kind of learning taught in those colleges, and that the maintenance of our young men, while with you, would be very expensive to you. We are convinced that you mean to do us good by your proposal, and we thank you heartily. But you who are wise must know that different nations have different conceptions of things, and you will therefore not take it amiss if our ideas of this kind of education happen not to be the same as yours. We have had some experience of it. Several of our young people were formerly brought up at the colleges of the northern province. They were instructed in all your sciences; but when they came back to us, they were bad runners, ignorant of every means of living in the woods …
      We are, however, none the less obliged by your kind offer, though we decline accepting it; and to show our grateful sense of it, if the gentlemen of Virginia will send us a dozen of their sons, we will take care of their education, instruct them in all, and make men of them.’
Touch the Earth. T C McLuhan

‘… nonsense is only that, which viewed from our present point of view, is unintelligible. Nonsense is nonsense only when we have not yet found that point of view from which it makes sense.’
The Dancing Wu Li Masters. Gary Zukav
 
‘…are taught by those in authority to hate everyone who thinks freely; they are trained to remain afar from those whose minds soar aloft.’
Spirits Rebellious. Kahlil Gibran
 
‘So long as you have a cloistered mind and live and think according to social consciousness, you will never venture into the unknown or contemplate the possibility of greater realities for fear that it will mean change…’
Ramtha

'Condemnation without investigation is the highest form of ignorance.'
Albert Einstein

‘The most beautiful and most profound emotion we can experience is the sensation of the mystical. It is the sower of all true science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty which our dull faculties can comprehend only in their primitive forms.’
Albert Einstein.
 
‘The only reason someone is a genius, and knows things you do not know, is because he has opened his mind to contemplate the what-ifs, the outrageous thoughts, the thoughts of brilliance that go beyond the limited thinking of man…’
Ramtha
 
‘Each time you accept a thought that is greater than what you have accepted as your standard, that thought activates yet another part of your brain into purposeful use. Each time you do that, the greater thought will offer itself as a carrier to expand your reasoning from that point. That will activate other portions of your brain for more thought, for more receiving, for more knowing. You know, it is very simple to be a genius. All you have to do is think for yourself.’
Ramtha
 

‘And the people in the houses all go to the university
And they all get put in boxes, little boxes all the same
And there's doctors and there's lawyers
And business executives
And they're all made out of ticky tacky and they all look just the same
And they all play on the golf course and drink their martini dry
And they all have pretty children and the children go to school
And the children go to summer camp
And then to the university
And they all get put in boxes, and they all come out the same
And the boys go into business and marry and raise a family
And they all get put in boxes, little boxes all the same’
Little Boxes. Pete Seeger

 

‘Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.'
William Butler Yeats.