Image by danpeters via FlickrPerhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be learned, and however early a man’s training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly. – Thomas Henry HuxleyHuman history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. – Herbert George Wells
A first-rate theory predicts: a second-rate theory forbids: and a third-rate theory explains after the event. – A.I. Kitaigorodskii
But I hang onto my prejudices. They are the testicles of my mind. – Eric Hoffer
Action will remove the doubt that theory cannot solve. – Tehyi Hsieh
No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go beyond. – Andre Gide
First a new theory is attacked as absurd: then it is admitted to be true, but obvious and insignificant: finally, it is seen to be so important that its adversaries claim that they themselves discovered it. – William James
Posts
