“ If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all. ”
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“ It is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and expose lies. ”
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“ If you’re teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are. ”
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“ Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way. ”
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“ Tough love is just the right phrase: love for the rich and privileged, tough for everyone else. ”
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“ Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better, you are unlikely to step up and take responsibility for making it so. ”
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“ Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better, you are unlikely to step up and take responsibility for making it so. If you assume there’s no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things… there’s a chance you may contribute to making a better world. The choice is yours. ”
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“ Do you train for passing tests or do you train for creative inquiry? ”
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“ I was never aware of any other option but to question everything. ”
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“ The only debatable issue, it seems to me, is whether it is more ridiculous to turn to experts in social theory for general wellconfirmed propositions, or to the specialists in the great religions and philosophical systems for insights into fundamental human values. ”
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“ Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune. ”
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“ Do you train for passing tests or do you train for creative inquiry? ”
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“ Since Jimmy Carter, religious fundamentalists play a major role in elections. He was the first president who made a point of exhibiting himself as a born again Christian. That sparked a little light in the minds of political campaign managers: Pretend to be a religious fanatic and you can pick up a third of the vote right away. Nobody asked whether Lyndon Johnson went to church every day. Bill Clinton is probably about as religious as I am, meaning zero, but his managers made a point of making sure that every Sunday morning he was in the Baptist church singing hymns. ”
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“ The only debatable issue, it seems to me, is whether it is more ridiculous to turn to experts in social theory for general wellconfirmed propositions, or to the specialists in the great religions and philosophical systems for insights into fundamental human values. ”
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“ Yes, it's simple, really. If you're riding a bicycle and you don't want to fall off, you have to keep going fast. ”
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“ People are called intellectuals because they're privileged. It's not because they're smart or they know a lot. There are plenty of people who know more and are smarter but aren't intellectuals because they don't have the privilege. The people called intellectuals are privileged. They have resources and opportunities, and enough freedom has been won so that they state does not have an unrestrained capacity to repress ”
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“ Science is a bit like the joke about the drunk who is looking under a lamppost for a key that he has lost on the other side of the street, because that's where the light is. It has no other choice. ”
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“ In mathematics, in physics, people are concerned with what you say, not with your certification. But in order to speak about social reality, you must have the proper credentials, particularly if you depart from the accepted framework of thinking. Generally speaking, it seems fair to say that the richer the intellectual substance of a field, the less there is a concern for credentials, and the greater is concern for content. ”
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“ The whole educational and professional training system is a very elaborate filter, which just weeds out people who are too independent, and who think for themselves, and who don't know how to be submissive, and so on because they're dysfunctional to the institutions. ”
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“ Do you train for passing tests or do you train for creative inquiry? ”
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“ Most problems of teaching are not problems of growth but helping cultivate growth. As far as I know, and this is only from personal experience in teaching, I think about ninety percent of the problem in teaching, or maybe ninetyeight percent, is just to help the students get interested. Or what it usually amounts to is to not prevent them from being interested. Typically they come in interested, and the process of education is a way of driving that defect out of their minds. But if children['s] ... normal interest is maintained or even aroused, they can do all kinds of things in ways we don't understand. ”
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“ The whole educational and professional training system is a very elaborate filter, which just weeds out people who are too independent, and who think for themselves, and who don't know how to be submissive, and so on because they're dysfunctional to the institutions. ”
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“ Do you train for passing tests or do you train for creative inquiry? ”
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