When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
Peter Drucker
Category: school
#65 – Collodi on School
What matters school? We can go to school tomorrow. Whether we have a lesson more or a lesson less, we shall always remain the same donkeys.
Carlo Collodi
#55 – Blanton on Law, Religion
Catholic education and law schools provide me with a lot of miserable people as psychotherapy clients. I should be grateful. These people are looking for rescue from their education.
Brad Blanton
#54 – JKT on School
You could tell by the way he talked, though, that he had gone to school a long time. That was probably what was wrong with him.
John Kennedy Toole
15 – Russell Baker on School
Life seemed to be an educator’s practical joke in which you spent the first half learning and the second half learning that everything you learned in the first half was wrong.
Russell Baker
#10 – Taleb on School
Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love; close enough on the surface but, to the nonsucker, not exactly the same thing.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Carl Elliott on School
The danger of academic life, thought Wittgenstein, is that we are encouraged to go on talking even when we know in our hearts that we have nothing valuable to say – Carl Elliott
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