My main beef with other libertarians is that so many of us (them?) seem to place a disproportionate emphasis on individualism in the sense that they see their own success as being the result of either their unique skills and / or talents and the failure of others as being the result of their respective lack of effort and “natural-born” abilities. Read more »
A very recent debate hosted by TVO reminded me of Fukuyama’s famous essay. The plan is to summarize it and eventually discuss it. Read more »
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army. Edward Everett
To educate a man is to unfit him to be a slave. Frederick Baily (1818-1895), escaped slave, Abolitionist
Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Education is a social process. Education is growth. Education is, not a preparation for life; education is life itself. John Dewey
Science is wonderfully equipped to answer the question "How?" but it gets terribly confused when you ask the question "Why?" Erwin Chargaff
Being right too soon is socially unacceptable. Robert A. Heinlein
Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity. Albert Einstein
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them. Isaac Asimov
Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future. Ray Bradbury
Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response. Arthur M. Schlesinger
Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. Carl Sagan
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge. Carl Sagan
Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy. Robert A. Heinlein
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...' Isaac Asimov
You cannot feed the hungry on statistics. Heinrich Heine
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts. Henry B. Adams
The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent. Carl Sagan
The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract. Robert A. Heinlein
Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity. Aristotle
Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science. Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world. Richard Dawkins
Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men. Jean Rostand
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. Isaac Asimov
The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing. Isaac Asimov
If I had learned education I would not have had time to learn anything else. Cornelius Vanderbilt
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one. Malcolm Forbes
Education is the transmission of civilization. Will Durant
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. Isaac Asimov
It so happened that my goals kind of matched my career progression toward becoming an astronaut. John L. Phillips I wanted to be a secret agent and an astronaut, preferably at the same time. David Byrne
Education is a social process. Education is growth. Education is, not a preparation for life; education is life itself. John Dewey
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly. Michel de Montaigne
Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know. Daniel J. Boorstin
