School and Learning
At college age you can tell who is best at taking tests and going to school, but you can’t tell who the best people are. That worries the hell out of me. –Barnaby C. Keeney
Only the curious will learn. And only the resolute overcome
the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than
the intelligence quotient. –
The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us. –Quentin Crisp
Universities should be safe havens where ruthless examination of realities will not be distorted by the aim to please or inhibited by the risk of displeasure. –Kingman Brewster
If you feel you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university has failed you. – Robert F. Goheen.
Education is to man what manure is to the pea. – Reginald C. Punnett 1907