Everything you've learned in school as "obvious" becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Education by choice, with its marvelous motivating psychology of desire for truth, will make life ever cleaner and happier, more rhythmical and… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
There will come a time when the proper education of children, by a glorified system of spontaneous education of choice, similar to… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
If man chooses oblivion, he can go right on leaving his fate to his political leaders. If he chooses Utopia, he must… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Out of my general world-pattern-trend studies there now comes strong evidence that nothing is going to be quite so surprising and abrupt… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
If I ran a school, I'd give the average grade to the ones who gave me all the right answers, for being… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
We were deliberately designed to learn only by trial and error. We're brought up, unfortunately, to think that nobody should make mistakes.… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Here is an educational bombshell: Take from all of today's industrial nations all their industrial machinery and all their energy-distributing networks, and… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
The dark ages still reign over all humanity, and the depth and persistence of this domination are only now becoming clear. This Dark Ages… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
All children are born geniuses, and we spend the first six years of their lives degeniusing them. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
I have spent most of my life unlearning things that were proved not to be true — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
You can never learn less; you can only learn more. The reason I know so much is because I have made so many mistakes. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Man is going to be displaced altogether as a specialist by the computer. Man himself is being forced to reestablish, employ, and enjoy his… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
If we design the environment properly It will permit both child and adult to develop safely And to behave logically. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
We are in an age that assumes the narrowing trends of specialization to be logical, natural, and desirable. Consequently, society expects all earnestly responsible… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Synergy means behavior of whole systems unpredicted by the behavior of their parts. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
We must start with scientific fundamentals, and that means with the data of experiments and not with assumed axioms predicated only upon the misleading… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
