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Comprehensive schools, as too few understand, have never been designed to improve education. ”
Our education system teaches the young what to think, not how to think. And if you ever wonder why so many things don't work properly any more, or why you can't get any sense out of so many organisations, this is one of the main reasons. ”
Taxpayers will not stand for - nor should they - the funding of poster sites, leaflets or advertising. What people will support is funding for political education, for training, for party organization. ”
I'm sorry - you know, culture is elitist. Culture has to be elitist: it's about seeing and knowing and about knowledge. ”
Thanks to secondary education and the Internet, we're all knowledgeable now - if knowledge means the accumulation of facts. Curators are those who know how to maneuver around that knowledge. ”
The Sistine Chapel is an extraordinary work of education - it lays out all the early books of the Bible. ”
People have asked me whether I have a science background. No, but I have a great curiosity about the kinds of things we do on 'Discover.' ”
If I have enough ego to say I'm a writer, a director, a producer, and an actor, I should have the energy and the knowledge to write a scene for this great actor named Henry Fonda and direct him in it and have it work. ”
I am immersed in architecture all day, working in my office or teaching. ”
Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement. ”