Education Quotes

"Everything can be explained to the people, on the single condition that you really want them to understand."

"The rhizome teaches us that there are always alternative paths"

"Education perpetuates inequality while claiming to transcend it."

"Cultural studies must remain self-critical about its own complicity."

"Pedagogy demands we teach against the grain of comfortable narratives."

"The university is both a site of promise and profound compromise."

"We inherit the university as an institution marked by violence and promise."

"We learn by unlearning what we thought we knew."

"Enlightenment is not complete; it must be continually renewed"

"Knowledge emerges from the exchange of perspectives"

"Learning requires willingness to have one's views challenged"

"We teach people what to think, not how to think at all."

"Culture industry not only adapts workers to the system; it also trains the system's managers."

"Every attempt to preserve the mind by nourishing it apart from practice is vain."

"True culture is a critical culture."

"The culture industry prevents thinking."

"Infancy is the human condition that resists the violence of language."

"Learning is the process of unlearning what we thought we knew."

"A concept without a percept is empty; a percept without a concept is blind."

"To read is not to extract meaning but to enter into a dialogue with the text."

"To think through a problem is to become transformed by it."

"Education should develop students' capacity for critical reasoning about society."

"Critical consciousness develops through education and engaged citizenship."

"Authentic democratic participation requires time, resources, and education."

"Knowledge does not possess the instant efficacy that would satisfy the active individual."

"Education is the point at which we decide whether we love the world enough."

"The crisis of education is pedagogical, not political."

"The psychiatrist's task is to help people reconnect with their own creative potential."

"The schizoanalytic approach seeks to increase human capacity for thinking and becoming."

"The role of the analyst is to facilitate the emergence of new possibilities."