School doesn’t teach: it trains.
May 122014
Schooling
Manufacturing stupidity.
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.
Oct 212013
An education is frequently confused with the flotsam one picks up on the way to acquiring it.
Jul 162013
Americans take no interest in education but are obsessed with schooling.
Jul 022013
A pseudo-science colonizes other disciplines; a real one sticks to its last.
May 222013
The most effective way to learn is by devoting oneself to a single subject for months at a time. Its opposite is school.
Mar 152013
Beware of any discipline that creates its own subject matter.
Feb 262013
Defang a book by putting it on the syllabus, a painting by putting it in a museum, and a radical by putting him in the ministry.