“Teachers' using grades and the fear of failure mould the brains of the young until they have lost every ounce of imagination they might once have possessed.”

—  Paul Karl Feyerabend, book Against Method

Source: Against Method: Outline of an Anarchistic Theory of Knowledge

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Austrian-born philosopher of science 1924–1994

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