#stem

Without causality in the world, there is no point in educating people, or making any moral or political appeal. ↗

— Felix Alba-Juez

#philosophy #science #education

A university is not about results in the next quarter; it is not even about who a student has become by graduation. It is about learning that molds a lifetime, learning that transmits the heritage of millennia; learning that shapes the future ↗

— Drew Gilpin Faust

#educational-system #university #education

School should become the place where teachers, not just students, learn. ↗

— Vijay Dhameliya

#education-system #school #school-system #teacher #teaching

Children usually have a natural curiosity about the world and everything in it until they get to school and somebody throws them against the locker because they get A's and act intelligent. After that, some kids try to dumb it down and adapt. ↗

— Joshua Neik

#education #education-system #intelligence #knowledge #wisdom

Our education system is today run by left-wing elitists who believe the US is too big, too arrogant, and must be reigned-in... Real sad. ↗

— Ziad K. Abdelnour

#big #education-system-elitist #sad #education

Whenever possible, I operate outside the system. ↗

— Andres Serrano

#operate #outside #possible #system #whenever

The genius of the American system is that through freedom we have created extraordinary results from plain old ordinary people. ↗

— Phil Gramm

#created #extraordinary #freedom #genius #old

There is nothing left now for us but to get ever deeper and deeper into debt to the banking system in order to provide the increasing amounts of money the nation requires for its expansion and growth. ↗

— Frederick Soddy

#banking system #debt #deeper #ever #expansion

America has designated football as the international sport, but the rest of the world continues to apply the metric system inconsistently. ↗

— Bauvard

#funny #humor #metric-system #sports #design

I do not think there is a demonstrative proof (like Euclid) of Christianity, nor of the existence of matter, nor of the good will and honesty of my best and oldest friends. I think all three are (except perhaps the second) far more probable than the alternatives. The case for Christianity in general is well given by Chesterton…As to why God doesn't make it demonstratively clear; are we sure that He is even interested in the kind of Theism which would be a compelled logical assent to a conclusive argument? Are we interested in it in personal matters? I demand from my friend trust in my good faith which is certain without demonstrative proof. It wouldn't be confidence at all if he waited for rigorous proof. Hang it all, the very fairy-tales embody the truth. Othello believed in Desdemona's innocence when it was proved: but that was too late. Lear believed in Cordelia's love when it was proved: but that was too late. 'His praise is lost who stays till all commend.' The magnanimity, the generosity which will trust on a reasonable probability, is required of us. But supposing one believed and was wrong after all? Why, then you would have paid the universe a compliment it doesn't deserve. Your error would even so be more interesting and important than the reality. And yet how could that be? How could an idiotic universe have produced creatures whose mere dreams are so much stronger, better, subtler than itself? ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#christianity #epistemology #god #proof #trust