Quote (#538)

"Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done."
- Carl Friedrich Gauss

"Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing."
- Georges Danton (1759-1794), to his executioner

Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to
make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their
minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects,
teach them to think straight, if possible.
- Robert M. Hutchins

The object of education is to prepare the young
to educate themselves throughout their lives.
- Robert M. Hutchins

Knowledge is of two kinds - that which is absorbed
and that which is just heard. The one that is heard
does not give benefit unless it is absorbed.
- Islamic Saying

"A religion contradicting science and a science
contradicting religion are equally false."
- P. D. Ouspensky (1878-1947)