Education Quotes by R. Buckminster Fuller

13 Education quotes by R. Buckminster Fuller

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R. Buckminster Fuller treats education as a design problem, urging us to think holistically. In thirteen concise observations he pushes for innovative, systems‑thinking methods that reshape how we acquire knowledge.

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You can't learn less.

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You can never learn less; you can only learn more.

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The more we learn the more we realize how little we know.

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Education by choice, with its marvelous motivating psychology of desire for truth, will make life ever cleaner and happier, more rhythmical and…

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Everything you've learned in school as "obvious" becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe.

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If I ran a school, I'd give the average grade to the ones who gave me all the right answers, for being…

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The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about…

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Out of my general world-pattern-trend studies there now comes strong evidence that nothing is going to be quite so surprising and abrupt…

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What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time…

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If man chooses oblivion, he can go right on leaving his fate to his political leaders. If he chooses Utopia, he must…

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There will come a time when the proper education of children, by a glorified system of spontaneous education of choice, similar to…

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We were deliberately designed to learn only by trial and error. We're brought up, unfortunately, to think that nobody should make mistakes.…

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Here is an educational bombshell: Take from all of today's industrial nations all their industrial machinery and all their energy-distributing networks, and…

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If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.

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The dark ages still reign over all humanity, and the depth and persistence of this domination are only now becoming clear. This Dark Ages…

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All children are born geniuses, and we spend the first six years of their lives degeniusing them.

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I have spent most of my life unlearning things that were proved not to be true

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There is no energy crisis, only a crisis of ignorance.

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The opposite of nature is impossible.

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You can never learn less; you can only learn more. The reason I know so much is because I have made so many mistakes.

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Man is going to be displaced altogether as a specialist by the computer. Man himself is being forced to reestablish, employ, and enjoy his…

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If we design the environment properly It will permit both child and adult to develop safely And to behave logically.

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We are in an age that assumes the narrowing trends of specialization to be logical, natural, and desirable. Consequently, society expects all earnestly responsible…

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Synergy means behavior of whole systems unpredicted by the behavior of their parts.

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We must start with scientific fundamentals, and that means with the data of experiments and not with assumed axioms predicated only upon the misleading…

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