Anti-intellectualism Quote by Herbert Spencer

Education can counteract the natural tendency to do the wrong thing, but the inexorable succession of generations requires that the basis for this knowledge…

— Garrett Hardin

“Knowledge is just a commodity. It is acquired in order to be resold. All those who have grown out of going to school have…

— Bertolt Brecht

Education is not the accumulation of knowledge, but the ability to find it.

— Louis Nizer

“There is an age at which we teach what we know. Then comes another age at which we teach what we do not know;…

— Roland Barthes

“...knowledge imprisons you. You cannot escape it. What you know you cannot unknow. That's why knowledge is dangerous. Learning will redefine your world, irreversibly.”

— Noam Shpancer

When knowledge becomes rigid, it stops living.

— Anselm Kiefer

The new education must consist essentially in this, that it completely destroys freedom of will in the soil which it undertakes to cultivate, and…

— Johann Gottlieb Fichte

“Realized knowledge alone destroys ignorance. . . . Knowledge cannot spring up by any other means than inquiry.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

“But self-knowledge cannot be imposed, understanding cannot be compelled; and if this is a vital problem to you and me, to the parent and…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

“Knowledge is like an endless resource; a well of water that satisfies the innate thirst of the growing human soul. Therefore never stop learning...…

— Chidi Okonkwo

Certainly the prolonged education indispensable to the progress of society is not natural to mankind.

— Winston Churchill

“Learning is possible only when there is no coercion of any kind.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti