“It is our American habit if we find the foundations of our educational structure unsatisfactory to add another story or wing. We find it easier to add a new study or course or kind of school than to recognize existing conditions so as to meet the need. strangled the holy curious of inquiry. It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty.” IfsThinkingNeedsKindMeanStoriesSchoolCoursesMistakeEducationStudySeeingConditionsDutyHabitEasierHolyFoundationStructureWingsAddEducationalGravesCuriousEnjoymentInquiryCoercion Author:Albert Einstein
“The way forward does not lie in amateur and comically timeless linguistic sociology which takes 'forms of life ' for granted (and this is what philosophy has been recently), but in the systematic study of forms of life which does not take them for granted at all. It hardly matters whether such an inquiry is called philosophy or sociology.” WayDoeHas BeensMatterPhilosophyFormLyingStudyGrantedTimelessSociologyInquirySystematicWay ForwardLife For Granted Book:The Devil in Modern Philosophy Source: The Devil in Modern Philosophy
“The pursuit of science, the study of the great works, the value of free inquiry, in short, the very idea of living the life of the mind - yes, these formative and abiding principles of higher education in America had their first and firmest advocate, and their greatest embodiment, in a tall, fair-headed, friendly man who watched this university take form from the mountainside where he lived, the university whose founding he called a crowning achievement to along and well-spent life.” MenMindFirstsWellsIdeasAmericaFormValuesPrinciplesStudyHigherAchievementFairsUniversityPursuitLive LifeFriendlyTallFoundingInquiryGreat WorkAbidingEmbodimentHigher EducationEducation In America Book:Ronald Reagan Source: Ronald Reagan
“Science is nothing more than a method of inquiry. The method says an assertion is valid - and will be universally accepted - only if it can be reproduced by others, and thereby independently verified. The impersonal rigor of the method has produced enormously powerful results for 400 years. The scientific method is utterly apolitical. A truth in science is verifiable whether you are black or white, male or female, old or young. It’s verifiable whether you know the experimenter, or whether you don’t.” IfsMeanYoungBlackWhiteResultsStudyAcceptanceFemaleUniversalMethodMalesMeritInquiryAssertionRigorBlack Or WhiteApolitical Author:Michael Crichton