“The purpose of education is not to validate ignorance but to overcome it”
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Lawrence M. Krauss 21
American physicist 1954Related quotes
“It serves the purpose of not serving a purpose, surely quite a valid one.”
In an interview in Artforum, Nov. 83
Interviews
Preface to the second edition (1953) of The Art of Worldly Wisdom (1949)
Context: I write for one and only one purpose, to overcome the invincible ignorance of the traduced heart. My poems are acts of force and violence directed against the evil which murders us all. If you like, they are designed not just to overthrow the present State, economic system, and Church, but all prevailing systems of human collectivity altogether... I wish to speak to and for all those who have had enough of the Social Lie, the Economics of Mass Murder, the Sexual Hoax, and the Domestication of Conspicuous Consumption.
“We cannot overcome obstacles with ignorance.”
Source: Full House (1996), Chapter 4, “Case One: A Personal Story” (p. 46)
“There is only one valid definition of a business purpose: to create a customer.”
Source: 1930s- 1950s, The Practice of Management (1954), p. 37
“Inexperience can be overcome, ignorance can be enlightened, but prejudice will destroy you.”
Source: The Black Gryphon
Source: Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Time (1977), p. 10: Introduction
“Education is a system of imposed ignorance.”
Source: Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
“Education is the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the ignorant by the incompetent.”
From hearer's memory in Jewish Frontier, vol. 29 http://books.google.com/books?id=NmYeAAAAMAAJ&q=keynes+%22inculcation+of+the+incomprehensible+into+the+ignorant+by+the+incompetent%22&dq=keynes+%22inculcation+of+the+incomprehensible+into+the+ignorant+by+the+incompetent (1962).
Alternate version: Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.
As quoted in Infinite Riches: Gems from a Lifetime of Reading (1979) by Leo Calvin Rosten, p. 165
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