Drug prohibition Quote by Will Rogers

Why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as well as prohibition did, in five years Americans…

— Will Rogers

At the current pace of change, we won't have universal access to education in 100 years, let alone five, and that is unacceptable.

— Shakira

Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it…

— Will Rogers

Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant…

— Samuel Johnson

Smart people don't learn... because they have too much invested in proving what they know and avoiding being seen as not knowing.

— Chris Argyris

“For they amount to this: that if we are to produce a society of educated people, fitted to preserve their intellectual freedom amid the…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

“If we build a machine with the intellectual capability of one human, within five years, its successor will be more intelligent than all of…

— James Barrat

We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.

— Bertrand Russell

I don't want students who could make the next major breakthrough in renewable energy sources or space travel to have been taught that anything…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Allow intelligent design into science textbooks, lecture halls, and laboratories, and the cost to the frontier of scientific discovery—the frontier that drives the economies…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“One problem with the way the educational system is set up is that it only recognizes a certain type of intelligence, and it’s incredibly…

— Bruce Springsteen

In the conditions of modern life the rule is absolute, the race which does not value trained intelligence is doomed. Not all your heroism,…

— Alfred North Whitehead