All intellectuals must begin as pseudo-intellectuals.
Dec 172014
Schooling
Manufacturing stupidity.
Dec 162014
First school spoils us for learning, and then jobs spoil us for work.
Sep 092014
Some subjects are to be studied for their own sake, others for the immunity conferred against their adepts. The vaccination principle applies to education as well as to medicine.
Sep 022014
No one will listen to you talk about the uselessness of a prestigious education unless you have one.
Aug 042014
One can learn quickly just enough to exasperate someone who understands the subject.
Jul 112014
Adolescents have no opinions, only symptoms.
May 122014
School doesn’t teach: it trains.
Mar 172014
Nearly every field of human endeavor should be rescued from its admirers.
Feb 142014
Of all the lies taught in school, the most vicious is that one ought to perform boring tasks diligently.
Jan 072014
Clever is a great compliment to children and a gross insult to adults.