X-Git-Url: https://codewiz.org/gitweb?p=wiki.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=GreatQuotes;h=44e82ff1409fc65b99c93b483e256a87c488e52d;hp=60e18ef75cfee930dae92db3be291f23695dc9fe;hb=fb22e51b891532fdee8716e7f9fe5492bbd9d2d8;hpb=baeb370da99334d99655b129e6e2f7998dea29ce diff --git a/GreatQuotes b/GreatQuotes index 60e18ef..44e82ff 100644 --- a/GreatQuotes +++ b/GreatQuotes @@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading \\ the individual towards freedom. \\ — [[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/33738-all-religions-arts-and-sciences-are-branches-of-the-same | Albert Einstein, 1937]] -== On Knowledge and Education == +== On Education == "Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world." \\ — [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_Mandela | Nelson Mandela]] @@ -57,36 +57,45 @@ creativity and invention that characterizes children before \\ they are deformed by adult society." \\ — [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Piaget | Jean Piaget]], pioneer of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructivism_(philosophy_of_education) | Constructivism]] -“At times I feel certain I am right while not knowing the reason. \\ -When the eclipse of 1919 confirmed my intuition, I was not in the least surprised. \\ -In fact, I would have been astonished had it turned out otherwise. \\ -Imagination is more important than knowledge. \\ -For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. \\ -It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research.” \\ -— [[https://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/01/01/einstein-imagination/ | Albert Einstein]], 1929 +"I think by far the most important bill in our whole code is that for the diffusion of knowledge among the people. \\ +No other sure foundation can be devised for the preservation of freedom and happiness... \\ +The tax which will be paid for this purpose is not more than the thousandth part \\ +of what will be paid to kings, priests and nobles who will rise up among us \\ +if we leave the people in ignorance." \\ +— [[http://www.let.rug.nl/usa/presidents/thomas-jefferson/letters-of-thomas-jefferson/jefl47.php | Thomas Jefferson to George Wythe]] (1786) + +Constructionism can't scale in school because of the prohibitive nature of narrow curriculum standards and even more narrow assessments. \\ +Since funding to schools is dependent on high scores, the schools will only ever teach to the test. \\ +A radical undoing of the current education system and funding mechanisms must be overhauled in order for constructionism to flourish. \\ +— Mark Barnett + +== On Epistemology == + +
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"I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance." \\ — [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socrates | Socrates]] \\ "Facts are stubborn things." \\ -— [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Adams | John Adams]] +— [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Adams | John Adams]] \\ "What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence." \\ — [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitchens%27s_razor | Christopher Hitchens' razor]] \\ "You don’t get to say you’ve proved something if you haven’t explained it. \\ A proof is a social construct. If the community doesn’t understand it, \\ you haven’t done your job.” \\ -— [[http://projectwordsworth.com/the-paradox-of-the-proof/ | Cathy O’Neil on Mochizuki's impenetrable proof of the ABC conjecture - -"I think by far the most important bill in our whole code is that for the diffusion of knowledge among the people. \\ -No other sure foundation can be devised for the preservation of freedom and happiness... \\ -The tax which will be paid for this purpose is not more than the thousandth part \\ -of what will be paid to kings, priests and nobles who will rise up among us \\ -if we leave the people in ignorance." \\ -— [[http://www.let.rug.nl/usa/presidents/thomas-jefferson/letters-of-thomas-jefferson/jefl47.php | Thomas Jefferson to George Wythe]] (1786) - +— [[http://projectwordsworth.com/the-paradox-of-the-proof/ | Cathy O’Neil on Mochizuki's impenetrable proof of the ABC conjecture ]] \\ +“At times I feel certain I am right while not knowing the reason. \\ +When the eclipse of 1919 confirmed my intuition, I was not in the least surprised. \\ +In fact, I would have been astonished had it turned out otherwise. \\ +Imagination is more important than knowledge. \\ +For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. \\ +It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research.” \\ +— [[https://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/01/01/einstein-imagination/ | Albert Einstein]], 1929 \\ == On Living a Good Life == +
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+ "Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live." \\ — [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socrates | Socrates]] @@ -111,11 +120,5 @@ a reporter wondered aloud if this was disrespectful to the king. Gandhi replied Looking at a mass of goods for sale: "How many things I have no need for!" \\ — [[https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Diogenes_La%C3%ABrtius | Socrates]]' take on Athens' rampant consumerism, circa 400 BC -Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends. - — Marcus Tullius Cicero - ---- - -1) Thou shalt not excessively annoy others. \\ -2) Thou shalt not be too easily annoyed. \\ -— [[https://www.fidonet.org/policy4.txt | The FidoNet Policy 4.07, 1989]] +Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends. \\ +— Marcus Tullius Cicero