Wendell Berry on education

We have lived by the assumption that what was good for us would be good for the world. … We have been wrong.

Far from making peace, wars invariably serve as classrooms and laboratories where men and techniques and states of mind are prepared for the next war.

Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

Mahatma Gandhi1869–1948

• Life & Death

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

Aristotle384–322 BC

• Ideas

He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.

Confucius551–479 BC

• Thinking