"Education is what remains after one has..." - Quote by Albert Einstein
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
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“If you want to find out anything from the theoretical physicists about the methods they use, I advise you to stick closely to one principle: don't listen to their words, fix your attention on their deeds. To him who is a discoverer in this field the products of his imagination appear so necessary and natural that he regards them, and would like to have them regarded by others, not as creations of thought but as given realities.”
“You are right in speaking of the moral foundations of science, but you cannot turn around and speak of the scientific foundations of morality.”
“When a man is sufficiently motivated, discipline will take care of itself.”
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“I believe, indeed, that overemphasis on the purely intellectual attitude, often directed solely to the practical and factual, in our education, has led directly to the impairment of ethical values.”
“Too much of what is called 'education' is little more than an expensive isolation from reality.”
“We need to eradicate the slander that says a black youth with a book is acting white.”
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“Need is a low door which, when we must by stern necessity pass through, forces the greatest to bend down the most.”
“Of all our studies, history is best qualified to reward our research. And when you see that you've got problems, all you have to do is examine the historic method used all over the world by others who have problems similar to yours. And once you see how they got theirs straight, then you know how you can get yours straight.”
“Distance sometimes lets you know who's worth keeping and who's worth letting go.”