Quote #22764
Passive acceptance of the teacher’s wisdom is easy to most boys and girls. It...
Category Archives: Bertrand Russell
Quote #22717
There is much pleasure ot be gained from useless knowledge.
Quote #22733
One of the chief obstacles to intelligence is credulity, and credulity could be enormously...
Quote #22749
Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins...
Quote #22718
Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
Quote #22734
Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we...
Quote #22750
It is clear that thought is not free if the profession of certain opinions...
Quote #22719
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already...
Quote #22735
A process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to philosophers to be...
Quote #22751
It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that...