“The first and most obvious understanding of education comes from the fact that anyone who can not tell Reason from rubbish is not yet in a condition to know that he can not tell Reason from rubbish, a disability, which, you would suppose, can hardly be one of those put forth as education. But it is.” ReasonEducationRubbish Book:The Gift of Fire Source: The Gift of Fire
“Who speaks reason to his fellow man bestows it upon them.” MenReasonSpeakFellowsFellow Man Author:Richard Mitchell
“Education, I am convinced, must be nothing more than this: The journey toward the limits of Reason, if any there be.” IfsReasonJourneyLimitsConvinced Author:Richard Mitchell
“Rousseau had it backwards. We are NOT born free. We are born in the chains of the random and the reflexive, and are ignorant and unreasonable by simple nature. We must learn to be free, to organize the random and detect the reflexive, to acquire the knowledge of particulars and the powers of reason. The examined life is impossible if we cannot examine, order, classify, define, distinguish, always in minute particulars.” IfsReasonWisdomLife IsOrderBornSimpleImpossibleMinutesIgnorantChainsAcquireOrganizeBackwardsUnreasonableBorn FreeExamined Life Author:Richard Mitchell
