Cyril LeMarchand

“What’s stopping me is I’m a Dahlite, a heatsinker on Dahl. I don’t have the money to get an education and I can’t get the credits to get an education. A real education, I mean. All they taught me was to read and cipher and use a computer and then I knew enough to be a heatsinker. But I wanted more. So I taught myself.” “In some ways, that’s the best kind of teaching. How did you do that?” “I knew a librarian. She was willing to help me. She was a very nice woman and she showed me how to use computers for learning mathematics. And she set up a software system that would connect me with other libraries.”
― Isaac Asimov, Prelude to Foundation

“The inescapable reality is this: wealth is so concentrated that a large segment of society is virtually unaware of its existence, so that some people imagine that it belongs to surreal or mysterious entities.”
― Thomas Piketty, Capital in the Twenty-First Century

“In order to avoid this, the educational system must increase its supply of new types of training and its output of new skills at a sufficiently rapid pace.”
― Thomas Piketty, Capital in the Twenty-First Century

“Private wealth rests on public poverty, and one particularly unfortunate consequence of this is that we currently spend far more in interest on the debt than we invest in higher education.”
― Thomas Piketty, Capital in the Twenty-First Century