Quotes for All
The things taught in schools & colleges are not an education but the means of education. Ralph Waldo Emerson
The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions. Ralph Waldo Emerson
I suppose it is because nearly all children go to school nowadays and have things arranged for them that they seem so forlornly unable to produce their own ideas. Agatha Christie
I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence. Aeschylus
I have been schooled by my own suffering: I’ve learned the many ways of being purged. Aeschylus
Do you expect sincerity in man when hypocrisy is the very keynote of human nature? We are nurtured on it; we are schooled in it, we live by it; and we rarely realize it.’ – Book 3, Chapter 16 Rafael Sabatini
Society highly values its normal man. It educates children to lose themselves and to become absurd, and thus to be normal.
R. D. Laing
The condition of alienation, of being asleep, of being unconscious, of being out of one’s mind, is the condition of the normal man.
R. D. Laing
The condition of alienation, of being asleep, of being unconscious, of being out of one’s mind, is the condition of the normal man. Society highly values its normal man. It educates children to lose themselves and to become absurd, and thus to be normal. Normal men have killed perhaps 100,000,000 of their fellow normal men in the last fifty years.
R. D. Laing
I learned most, not from those who taught me but from those who talked with me.
Saint Augustine