"School is indeed a training for later life……" — Jules Henry
"School is indeed a training for later life not because it teaches the 3 Rs (more or less), but because it instills the essential cultural nightmare fear of failure, envy of success, and absurdity."
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11 Quotes by Jules Henry
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Human beings have the capacity to learn to want almost any conceivable material object. Given, then, the emergence of a…
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I was less successful in my attempts to effect preventive vaccination against typhus by using the virus and in trying…
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Most of the doctors in the Tunisian administration, especially those in country districts, contracted typhus and approximately one third of…
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Of all the problems which were open to me for study, typhus was the most urgent and the most unexplored.…
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My first attempts to transmit typhus to laboratory animals, including the smaller species of monkeys, had failed, as had those…
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To think deeply in our culture is to grow angry and to anger others; and if you cannot tolerate this…
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The function of high school, then, is not so much to communicate knowledge as to oblige children finally to accept…
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The paradox of the human condition is expressed more in education than elsewhere in human culture, because learning to learn…
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The function of education has never been to free the mind and the spirit of man, but to bind them;…
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If advertising has invaded the judgment of children, it has also forced its way into the family, an insolent usurper…
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An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of…
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This Old Testament - containing error, folly, absurdity and immorality - is by English statute law declared to be of…
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Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.
— Ambrose Bierce
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A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of…
— Samuel Butler
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My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out…
— Lord Byron
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At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.
— Albert Camus
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Basically, at the very bottom of life, which seduces us all, there is only absurdity, and more absurdity. And maybe…
— Albert Camus
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It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down. Why do we…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Mockery of religion is one of the most essential things because to demystify supposedly 'holy text dictated by god' and…
— Christopher Hitchens
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The vested interests-if we explain the situation by their influence-can only get the public to act as they wish by…
— Norman Angell
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When a man has once brought himself to accept uncritically all the absurdities that religious doctrines put before him and…
— Sigmund Freud
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Among the sayings and discourses imputed to him (i.e. Jesus) by his biographers, I find many passages of fine imagination,…
— Thomas Jefferson
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