A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination.
Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.
Strange as it may seem, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it.
A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.
Ignorance of what real learning is, and a consequent suspicion of it; materialism, and a consequent intellectual laxity, both of these have done destructive work in the colleges.
If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.
Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
The University conceives of itself as dedicated to the power of the intellect. Its commitment is to the way of reason.
Witty inspirations are the proverbs of the educated.
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