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.
We read to find out what the world is like, to experience lots of lives, not just the one we live. If it is true that our lives are chaotic and we crave a shape, stories are the shapes that we put on experience, containing all the wisdom in the world. We can even choose what kind of wisdom suits us.
I'm the product of the classical, old-fashioned European education that is broad-based. You want to get your degree in the world, you have to study all sorts of things.
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
PowerPoint is like being trapped in the style of early Egyptian flatland cartoons rather than using the more effective tools of Renaissance visual representation.
The entering class I joined in 1956 included just nine women, up from five in the then second-year class, and only one African American. All professors, in those now-ancient days, were of the same race and sex.
A quality education grants us the ability to fight the war on ignorance and poverty.
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