The brainy class is made up of individuals who think for themselves and beyond formal education are continuous learners who tend to be self-taught.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
A brain is a society of very small, simple modules that cannot be said to be thinking, that are not smart in themselves. But when you have a network of them together, out of that arises a kind of smartness.
Education is the methodical creation of the habit of thinking.
I have always had this view about the modern education system: we pay attention to brain development, but the development of warmheartedness we take for granted.
Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.
Some people stay in the academic world just to avoid becoming self-aware. You can quote me on that.
I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
When schools produce students who learned to think on the left or on the right, they're not thinking for themselves.
Education is a work of self-organization by which man adapts himself to the conditions of life.
You can't be taught to be brainy. You've either got it or you don't.
There is a dearth of thinking skills - people are taught what to think, not how.