We have been programed for obedience, turned into self-absorbed apathetic beings that submit to authority and fear dissent." - Noam Chomsky radicool
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“The function of education is to create human beings who are integrated and therefore intelligent. We may take degrees and be mechanically efficient without being intelligent. Intelligence is not mere information; it is not derived from books, nor does it consist of...
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clever self-defensive responses and aggressive assertions. One who has not studied may be more intelligent than the learned. We have made examinations and degrees the criterion of intelligence and have developed cunning minds that avoid vital human issues...
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Intelligence is the capacity to perceive the essential, the what is; and to awaken this capacity, in oneself and in others, is education. “Without an integrated understanding of life, our individual and collective problems will only deepen and extend.
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The purpose of education is not to produce mere scholars, technicians and job hunters, but integrated men and women who are free of fear; for only between such human beings can there be enduring peace.”… - Jiddu Krishnamurti
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