Max Gluckman famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Learning is a plant that grows in all climes.
It goes against the grain of modern education to teach students to program. What fun is there to making plans, acquiring discipline, organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail, and learning to be self critical.
If the world were to end tomorrow and we could choose to save only one thing as the explanation and memorial to who we were, then we couldn't do better than the Natural History Museum, although it wouldn't contain a single human. The systematic Linnean order, the vast inquisitiveness and range of collated knowledge and beauty would tell all that is the best of us.
One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.
I am putting together a secular bible. My Genesis is when the apple falls on Newton's head.
But it would be absolutely mistaken to regard a wealth of theoretical knowledge as characteristic proof for the qualities and abilities of a leader.
Where lies the line between sorcery and science? It is only a matter of terminology, my friend.
Every discipline develops standards of professional competence to which its workers are subject... Every scientific community is a society in the small, so to speak, with its own agencies of social control.
Discipline is choosing between what you want now, and what you want most.
I think there's some connection between absolute discipline and absolute freedom.

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