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"Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate,no despotism can enslave. At home, a friend, abroad, an introduction, in solitude a solace and in society an ornament.It chastens vice, it guides virtue, it gives at once grace and government to genius. Without it, what is man? A splendid slave, a reasoning savage." -Joseph Addison
"Only the educated are free." -Epictetus
We have convictions only if we have studied nothing thoroughly. E. M. Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born
Every Western schoolchild is dutifully taught that the Near East is "the cradle of civilization," and that the first civilizations arose in Egypt and Mesopotamia....From here civilization spread to Crete and Greece, and then to Rome, and eventually to the barbarians of northern Europe. What these barbarians were doing while they waited for the arrival of civilization was not known... -Michael Crichton, Eaters of the Dead, 1976
"Does anybody ever actually root for the coyote?"
"Of course! He's the technologist, the tool-user, the direct spiritual descendant of the ape who got an Idea in the opening of "2001: Space Odyssey!" He's got a brain and opposable thumbs and an Acme Products catalog, and by golly he's going to use them! What's the bird got besides feet and luck? An air of annoying smugness, that's what. Make him lunch, I say. When I win the lottery, I'm going to fund a Wile E. Coyote Chair of Applied Engineering at some university, I am..." -Carl Burke and William December Starr
Don't mock me my friend. It's a condition of mental divergence. I find myself on the planet Ogo, part of an intellectual elite, preparing to subjugate the barbarian hordes on Pluto. But even though this is a totally convincing reality for me in every way, nevertheless Ogo is actually a construct of my psyche. I am mentally divergent, in that I am escaping certain unnamed realities that plague my life here. When I stop going there, I will be well. Are you also divergent, friend? -L. J. Washington
Hello Freshman. If you can keep your minds off fucking long enough to pay attention, I’ve got a few things to tell you. The time you spend here will be mostly wasted. Deals will be cast at your feet while you’re busy wallowing in the mud. The reason for this is that all of you fail to grasp one solitary truth: YOU DO NOT KNOW ANYTHING .
I do not care how many Honors Classes you have had. I do not care about the number of citations you’ve received. I do not care if you edited your school newspaper. I promise you cannot even grasp the depth of your ignorance.
One day, if you are lucky, you will finally get a glimpse of the infinitesimal worth of your knowledge and experience, and the sheer scale of it will drop you to your knees. And on that day, you will realize that what you paid thousands in tuition for is not information but humility .
~http://www.machall.com/index.php?strip_id=224
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