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“Give me a fruitful error any time, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections. You can keep your sterile truth for yourself.”

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Vilfredo Pareto

Italian economist known for his theories on economic efficiency and income distribution. Pareto is famous for his 80/20 rule, which states that 80% of the results come from 20% of the causes. His theories have had a profound impact on economics, sociology, and political science. more

“I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone. The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square.”

“The average schoolmaster is and always must be essentially an ass, for how can one imagine an intelligent man engaging in so puerile an avocation.”

Men Education Imagine Intelligent Average Educational Ass Engaging Intelligent Man

Book:H.L. Mencken: Prejudices: First, Second, and Third Series

Source: H.L. Mencken: Prejudices: First, Second, and Third Series

“You can lade a man up to th' university, but ye can't make him think.”

Thinking Men Education Learning University

Author:Finley Peter Dunne

“There is less flogging in our great schools than formerly-but then less is learned there; so what the boys get at one end they lose at the other.”

Ends School Loses Education Boys Learning Great Schools Flogging

Author:Samuel Johnson

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