#system

A university is not about results in the next quarter; it is not even about who a student has become by graduation. It is about learning that molds a lifetime, learning that transmits the heritage of millennia; learning that shapes the future ↗

— Drew Gilpin Faust

#educational-system #university #education

School should become the place where teachers, not just students, learn. ↗

— Vijay Dhameliya

#education-system #school #school-system #teacher #teaching

Children learn what they live. Put kids in a class and they will live out their lives in an invisible cage, isolated from their chance at community; interrupt kids with bells and horns all the time and they will learn that nothing is important or worth finishing; ridicule them and they will retreat from human association; shame them and they will find a hundred ways to get even. The habits taught in large-scale organizations are deadly. ↗

— John Taylor Gatto

#education-system #education

People who cannot put strings of sentences together in good order cannot think. An educational system that does not teach the technology of writing is preventing thought. ↗

— Richard Mitchell

#logic #thought #education

With a philosophy education, one can infuriate his peers, intimidate his date, think of obscure, unreliable ways to make money, and never regret a thing. ↗

— Criss Jami

#composure #contentment #education #education-system #freedom

To devise an information processing system capable of getting along on its own - it must handle its own problems of programming, bookkeeping, communication and coordination with its users. It must appear to its users as a single, integrated personality. ↗

— Cliff Shaw

#appear #capable #communication #coordination #devise

As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications. ↗

— Dave Parnas

#applications #been #failed #real #repeatedly

It is as deadly for a mind to have a system as to have none. Therefore it will have to decide to combine both. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#combine #deadly #decide #mind #none

I believe [...] that while all human life is sacred there’s nothing wrong with the death penalty if you can trust the legal system implicitly, and that no one but a moron would ever trust the legal system. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#death-penalty #justice #justice-system #legal-system #reasonable-doubt

The retirement system that is in place for members of Congress and other federal workers features what is known as the Federal Employment Retirement Plan. ↗

— Virgil Goode

#employment #features #federal #known #members