Education Quotes by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“what I was given to study in school I have forgotten; what I decided to read on my own, I still remember.”

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Decomposition, for most, starts when they leave the free, social, and uncorrupted college life for the solitary confinement of professions and nuclear…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love; close enough on the surface but, to the nonsucker, not exactly the same…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I hated school because I liked to daydream and the system tried to stop me from that.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg didn't finish college. Too much emphasis is placed on formal education - I told my…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“As the skeptics’ main teaching was that nothing could be accepted with certainty, conclusions of various degrees of probability could be formed,…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“The British government documents, as early as fifty years ago, an aim for education other than the one we have today: raising…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

As countries get rich they start increasing education and the very educated people tend to not like trial and error, because they…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“As a child of civil war, I disbelieve in structured learning—actually I believe that one can be an intellectual without being a…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

If one puts an infinite number of monkeys in front of typewriters, and lets them clap away, there is a certainty that…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“Serious empirical investigation (largely thanks to one Lant Pritchet, then a World Bank economist) shows no evidence that raising the general level…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I suspect the I.Q., SAT, and school grades are tests designed by nerds so they can get high scores in order to…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Many people keep deploring the low level of formal education in the United states (as defined by, say, math grades). Yet these…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“The minute I was bored with a book or a subject I moved to another one, instead of giving up on reading…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“The biologist and intellectual E. O. Wilson was once asked what represented the most hindrance to the development of children; his answer…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb