Education Quotes by Robert M. Pirsig

11 Education quotes by Robert M. Pirsig

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Pirsig's philosophical bent makes his comments on learning feel like a quiet meditation. In eleven lines he probes the quality of thought behind formal instruction.

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The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that.

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“I was an outsider who seemed more interested in attacking what was being taught than learning from it.”

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Education should not be fun. You are being brought up into society and society has a way of doing things. It may…

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“This larger goal wouldn’t be the imitation of education in Universities today, glossed over and concealed by grades and degrees that give…

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A motorcycle functions entirely in accordance with the laws of reason, and a study of the art of motorcycle maintenance is really…

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The real University... has no specific location. It owns no property, pays no salaries, and receives no material dues... The real University…

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“In a sense, he said, it’s the student’s choice of Quality that defines him. People differ about Quality, not because Quality is…

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The study of the art of motorcycle maintenance is really a miniature study of the art of rationality itself. Working on a…

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The idea that the majority of students attend a university for an education independent of the degree and grades is a hypocrisy…

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Schools teach you to imitate. If you don't imitate what the teacher wants you get a bad grade. Here, in college, it…

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“As a result of his experiments he concluded that imitation was a real evil that had to be broken before real rhetoric…

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Even though quality cannot be defined, you know what quality is.

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I suppose philosophy is historically not a woman's game, though that is changing.

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“Of the value traps, the most widespread and pernicious is value rigidity. This is an inability to revalue what one sees because of commitment…

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“Historically mystics have claimed that for a true understanding of reality metaphysics is too “scientific”. Metaphysics is not reality. Metaphysics is names about reality.…

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“What’s emerging from the pattern of my own life is the for belief that the crisis is being caused by the inadequacy of existing…

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To speak of certain government and establishment institutions as 'the system' is to speak correctly . . . They are sustained by structural relationships…

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If a revolution destroys a systematic government, but the systematic patterns of thought that produced that government are left intact, then those patterns will…

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The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.

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Even in the presence of others he was completely alone.

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