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En ydmyk Isaac Newton vekket til live et gammelt sitat da han i 1676 skrev et brev til rivalen Robert Hooke, hvor han sa følgende:
"If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants."
Betydningen av dette er noe som har blitt debattert i ettertid, men den allmenne aksepterte versjonen er at Newton mente at oppdagelsene han gjorde ville ikke vært mulige uten den viten han hadde arvet av sine forgjengere.
Dagens akademia peker også tilbake i alle retninger, og de virkelig store tenkerne la grunnlaget for det vi lærer i dag allerede før vår tidsregning.
Det har blitt sagt mye fornuftig rundt utdanning og det å lære. Ikke alle av de følgende sitatene er fra «store» tenkere, og alt er ikke ment like seriøst. Uansett, her er 20 sitater som kanskje kan sette betydningen av utdanning i perspeltiv.
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- Some people drink from the fountain of knowledge, others just gargle.
Robert Anthony
- The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
Aristotles
- The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
Albert Einstein
- Den som anser seg for ferdig utdannet, er ikke utdannet, men ferdig.
Ukjent opphav
- I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.
Walt Disney
- To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.
A. A. Milne
- The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
Sydney J. Harris
- You can never be overdressed or overeducated.
Oscar Wilde
- I en verden som prioriterer forsvar foran utdanning, sitter vi igjen med smarte bomber og dumme unger.
Anne-Kat. Hærland
- I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
Michel de Montaigne
- Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
Louis Hector Berlioz
- Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
G. M. Trevelyan
- Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
Albert Einstein
- Education costs money, but then so does ignorance.
Sir Claus Moser
- Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Malcolm Forbes
- Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Mahatma Gandhi
- Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.
Martin Luther King Jr.
- Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.
Walter Cronkite
- Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.
Mark Twain
- If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.
Frank Zappa
