Education isn't something you can finish
Interpretation
Education is a lifelong process that never truly ends.
This quote by Isaac Asimov emphasizes the idea that education is not merely a phase of life confined to school or formal learning. Instead, it is an ongoing journey of growth, discovery, and understanding that continues throughout one's life, as we constantly encounter new ideas, experiences, and challenges that contribute to our personal and intellectual development.
In practice
During a graduation speech, you might say, 'As Isaac Asimov once noted, education isn't something you can finish, encouraging all to keep learning beyond these walls.'
Democracy cannot survive overpopulation. Human dignity cannot survive it. Convenience and decency cannot survive it. As you put more and more people into the world, the value of life not only declines, but it disappears. It doesn't matter if someone dies.
Science does not promise absolute truth, nor does it consider that such a thing necessarily exists. Science does not even promise that everything in the Universe is amenable to the scientific process.
Democracy cannot survive overpopulation.
Although the time of death is approaching me, I am not afraid of dying and going to Hell or (what would be considerably worse) going to the popularized version of Heaven. I expect death to be nothingness and, for removing me from all possible fears of death, I am thankful to atheism.
A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.
During the century after Newton, it was still possible for a man of unusual attainments to master all fields of scientific knowledge. But by 1800, this had become entirely impracticable.
I studied with Strasberg, Elia Kazan. They raised the bar. They weren't easy to please, and they made you achieve the best you could do. That's what a teacher does: he infuses you with passion for something.
One has to grow up with good talk in order to form the habit of it.
And if we must educate our poets and artists in science, we must educate our masters, labour and capital, in art.
In a high-IQ job pool, soft skills like discipline, drive and empathy mark those who emerge as outstanding.
Governments decide they know best and they're going to tell you what to do. The trouble is that education doesn't go on in the committee rooms of our legislative buildings. It happens in classrooms and schools, and the people who do it are the teachers and the students. And if you remove their discretion, it stops working.
It was never factually true that young people learn to read or do arithmetic primarily by being taught these things. These things are learned, but not really taught at all. Over-teaching interferes with learning, although the few who survive it may well come to imagine it was by an act of teaching.
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