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The Master said, 'Ts'ze, you think, I suppose, that I am one who learns many things and keeps them in memory?'
Tsze-kung replied, 'Yes,-- but perhaps it is not so?'
'No,' was the answer; 'I seek a unity all-pervading.'
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...a man cannot escape ridicule, who repeats a discourse as a school-boy does his lesson, and takes no notice of any thing that has been advanced in the course of the debate.
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With every drop of my blood I hate and execrate every form of tyranny, every form of slavery. I hate dictation. I love liberty.
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...if you are imbued with these ideas, you will understand that it is above all important to bring about a radical change in this state of affairs which today condemns the philosopher to be crammed with scientific truths, and almost the whole of the rest of human beings to remain what they were five, ten centuries ago - that is to say, in the state of slaves and machines, incapable of mastering established truths.... Weary of working to procure pleasures for this small group, which already has a large share of them, you will place your information and devotion at the service of the oppressed.
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Do you remember one of Holmes's little scores over Watson about the number of steps up to the Baker Street lodging? Poor old Watson had been up and down them a thousand times, but he had never thought of counting them, whereas Holmes had counted them as a matter of course, and knew that there were seventeen. And that was supposed to be the difference between observation and non-observation. Watson was crushed again, and Holmes appeared to him more amazing than ever. Now, it always seemed to me that in that matter Holmes was the ass, and Watson the sensible person. What on earth is the point of keeping in your head an unnecessary fact like that?
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With the rapid growth in the popular channels of communication it is more true than ever before that the sheer weight of reiteration rather than the power of reason influences the attitude of the public.
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...the barbarous niceties that our youth are forced to learn in those trifling logical schools that are among us...
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No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy. I have good memories of St. Cyprian's, among a horde of bad ones.
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As for St. Cyprian's, for years I loathed its very name so deeply that I could not view it with enough detachment to see the significance of the things that happened to me there. In a way it is only within the last decade that I have really thought over my schooldays, vividly though their memory has always haunted me.
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Clearly, scientific education ought to mean the implanting of a rational, skeptical, experimental habit of mind. It ought to mean acquiring a method — a method that can be used on any problem that one meets — and not simply piling up a lot of facts.
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That the reasoning faculty may be injured and destroyed during its growth, by reiterated impressions being made upon it of notions not derived from realities, and which it therefore cannot compare with the ideas previously received from the objects around it. And when the mind receives these notions which it cannot comprehend, along with those ideas which it is conscious are true and which yet are inconsistent with such notions, then the reasoning faculties become injured, the individual is taught or forced to believe, and not to think or reason, and partial insanity or defective powers of judging ensue.
That all men are thus erroneously trained at present, and hence the inconsistencies and misery of the world.
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All the universities and all the ancient writers put together have less talent than my ass.
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...availability is not the sole criterion by which data should be judged.
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The young are of age when they twitter like the old; they are driven through school to learn the old song, and, when they have this by heart, they are declared of age.
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Nothing useful can be poured into a vessel that is already full of what is useless. We must first empty out what is useless.
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April 13, 2020 : Memorization -- Added.
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