#course

Every educational system is a political means of maintaining or of modifying the appropriation of discourse, with the knowledge and the powers it carries with it. ↗

— Micel Foucault "The Discourse on Language"

#education #foucault #knowledge #power #education

I wanted the feel in these books to be like an epic fantasy, with kings, queens, dukes and court politics, but of course like what I was explaining before, about making the science make sense, you have to make the politics make sense, too. ↗

— Kevin J. Anderson

#before #books #course #court #dukes

Of course, tax revenues have ended up being substantially higher than they were at the time these dire projections were made, and we are very close now to having a balanced budget. All that has been very helpful. ↗

— Charles Vest

#balanced budget #been #being #budget #close

The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action. ↗

— Frank Herbert

#course #distrust #i #improve #lives

I joined the Army and was sent to the MIT radiation laboratory after a few months of introduction to electromagnetic wave theory in a special course, given for Army personnel at the University of Chicago. ↗

— Jack Steinberger

#army #chicago #course #electromagnetic #few

Because today we live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political groups... So I ask, in my writing, What is real? Because unceasingly we are bombarded with pseudo-realities manufactured by very sophisticated people using very sophisticated electronic mechanisms. I do not distrust their motives; I distrust their power. They have a lot of it. And it is an astonishing power: that of creating whole universes, universes of the mind. I ought to know. I do the same thing. ↗

— Philip K. Dick

#media #postmodern #power #science-fiction #motivational

The orgasm has replaced the Cross as the focus of longing and the image of fulfillment. ↗

— Malcolm Muggeridge

#cross #intercourse #orgasm #religion #salvation

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind. ↗

— Rudyard Kipling

#mankind #most #most powerful #powerful #used

Some people prefer eating dessert to the main course. These people have never been really hungry. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#hunger #hungry #main-course #preference #inspirational

The finest clothing made is a person's own skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this. ↗