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Dangerous Minds
Sep. 5th, 2008 07:24 pmThere are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous. --Hannah Arendt
Thinking outside the box
May. 12th, 2008 10:19 amI'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it. Terry Pratchett
Menken on Public Education
Oct. 11th, 2005 12:12 amThe aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality.
And what is a good citizen? Simply one who never says, does or thinks anything that is unusual. Schools are maintained in order to bring this uniformity up to the highest possible point.
A school is a hopper into which children are heaved while they are still young and tender; therein they are pressed into certain standard shapes and covered from head to heels with official rubber-stamps.
– H. L. Mencken
And what is a good citizen? Simply one who never says, does or thinks anything that is unusual. Schools are maintained in order to bring this uniformity up to the highest possible point.
A school is a hopper into which children are heaved while they are still young and tender; therein they are pressed into certain standard shapes and covered from head to heels with official rubber-stamps.
– H. L. Mencken
Pauling on good ideas
Sep. 1st, 2005 09:19 pm"If you want to have good ideas you must have many ideas. Most of them will be wrong, and what you have to learn is which ones to throw away."--Linus Pauling (1901-1994)
