Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Two paradoxes are better than one; they may even suggest a solution.
I got a lot of paradoxes in my life. I guess I'm a real confused person, but there are some focused parts to my life now, and I'm slowly trying to put all the pieces back together.
The paradox of education is precisely this; that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.
The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.
At the end of the day, teachers aren't going to mess about trying to make me into an Einstein, 'cause it was never gonna happen. We can't all be brainy, can we? That's just the way the world is.
I'm the classic absent-minded professor: I'm very focused on something, and meanwhile, I've left the refrigerator door open for hours.
How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.
There is one thing a professor can be absolutely certain of: almost every student entering the university believes, or says he believes, that truth is relative.
The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo.
We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.