"Schools teach ignorance."

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Eduardo Galeano

#School Quotes #Ignorance Quotes #Knowledge Quotes

“You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“You members of this Conference are to be the architects of the better world. In your hands rests our future.”
“The police are asking through the bedroom door, why did I make a batch of strawberry daiquiris before I called them? Because we were out of raspberries. Because, can't they see, it just does not matter. Time was not of the essence.”
“God forgives not capriciously, but with wise, definite, Divine pre arrangement; forgives universally, on the grounds of atonement and on the condition of repentance and faith.”

Source : Richard Salter Storrs (1875). “Conditions of Success in Preaching Without Notes: Three Lectures Delivered Before the Students of the Union Theological Seminary, New York, Januray 13, 20, 27: 1875; with an Appendix”, p.114
“Live each day like your last...one day you'll be right.”

Source : Song: See No Evil, Album: The Hunt for the Gingerbread Man
“People can defame anyone they like, people can write anything they like. But non-accountability is a part of modern Indian culture.”

Source : "‘Can’t be taken seriously till you are 70’". Interview with Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi, www.telegraphindia.com. 1995.
“Which is better -- to be a pack of painted Indians like you are, or to be sensible like Ralph is? Which is better -- to have rules and agree, or to hunt and kill? Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?”
“Philosophy ought to question the basic assumptions of the age. Thinking through, critically and carefully, what most of us take for granted is, I believe, the chief task of philosophy, and the task that makes philosophy a worthwhile activity.”

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