there are a suite of institutionalized factors that are designed to protect people from ideas…
Peter Boghossian
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#129 Vonnegut on Education
You might just learn something when you’re in a mood to learn something. The only thing I ever learned was that some people are lucky and other people aren’t and not even a graduate of the Harvard Business School can say why.
Kurt Vonnegut
#123 – Lessing on School
What you are being taught here is an amalgam of current prejudice and the choices of this particular culture. The slightest look at history will show how impermanent these must be. You are being taught by people who have been able to accommodate themselves to a regime of thought laid down by their predecessors.
Doris Lessing
#121 – Strauss on PHDs
no matter what your point of view may be, you can always find someone with a Ph.D to support it.
Neil Strauss
#119 – Bastiat on Education
All monopolies are detestable, but the worst of all is the monopoly of education.
F. Bastiat
#95 – Drucker on School
When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
Peter Drucker
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