How can great minds be produced in a country where the test of a great mind is agreeing in the opinions of small minds?
—John Stuart Mill
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Category Archives: Education
Chelsea Manning is No Longer a Fellow …
… at Harvard, but he still has a Y-chromosome.
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Open-mindedness is not the same as empty-mindedness.
—John Dewey
I’m So Old …
… that I remember when the Free Speech Movement was important at Berkely.
Now, the San Francisco Chronicle reports the mayor of Berkeley has asked the University of California to cancel a Free Speech Week.
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A large section of the intelligentsia seems wholly devoid of intelligence.
—G. K. Chesterton
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Le secret de la liberté est d’éclairer les hommes, comme celui de la tyrannie est de les retenir dans l’ignorance. The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.
—Maximilien Robespierre
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I think people in power have a vested interest to oppose critical thinking.
—Carl Sagan
