„Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.“
— Will Durant American historian, philosopher and writer 1885 - 1981
„Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.“
— William James Durant, Context: Sixty years ago I knew everything. Now I know nothing. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. Quoted in "Books: The Great Gadfly", Time magazine, 8 October 1965 (review of The Age of Voltaire by Will and Ariel Durant)
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„Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education.“
— John F. Kennedy 35th president of the United States of America 1917 - 1963
Context: Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. Our requirements for world leadership, our hopes for economic growth, and the demands of citizenship itself in an era such as this all require the maximum development of every young American's capacity. The human mind is our fundamental resource. Special Message to the Congress on Education (20 February 1961) http://www.jfklink.com/speeches/jfk/publicpapers/1961/jfk46_61.html
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„Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.“
— Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
„The soul follows the progress of the body, as it does the progress of education.“
— Julien Offray de La Mettrie French physician and philosopher 1709 - 1751
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„Education is a system of imposed ignorance.“
— Noam Chomsky, Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
„From the very beginning of his education, the child should experience the joy of discovery.“
— Alfred North Whitehead English mathematician and philosopher 1861 - 1947
„It is only the ignorant who despise education.“
— Publilio Siro Latin writer 100
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„Education is the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the ignorant by the incompetent.“
— John Maynard Keynes British economist 1883 - 1946
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
„There will be no development without education, no progress without culture.“
— Alberto Assa Colombian eductor and translator 1909 - 1996
Instituto Experimental del Atlántico "José Celestino Mutis" http://web.archive.org/web/20130421041951/http://www.colegio-iea.com/Glosas%20Experimentales_Nr1.pdf
„Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.“
— Mark Twain American author and humorist 1835 - 1910
„Education costs money, but then so does ignorance.“
— Claus Moser, Baron Moser British statistician and Civil Servant 1922 - 2015
The Daily Telegraph, 21 August 1990 http://www2.gsu.edu/~dscthw/8350/bayes/perfinfo.pdf
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„Our single greatest defense against scientific ignorance is education, and early in the life of every scientist, the child's first interest was sparked by a teacher.“
— Peter Agre American chemist, recipient of Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1949
Peter Agre's speech at the Nobel Banquet http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/2003/agre-speech-e.html, December 10, 2003
„We've tried ignorance for a thousand years. It's time we try education.“
— Joycelyn Elders American pediatrician, public health administrator, and former Surgeon General of the United States 1933
On sex education Penn & Teller: Bullshit!, "Abstinence" http://www.sho.com/site/video/player.do?video=/134/2006/abstinence&seriesid=134 [4.10], 5 June 2006
„The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are“
— Evelyn Waugh British writer 1903 - 1966
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„Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.“
— Henry Adams journalist, historian, academic, novelist 1838 - 1918