Benjamin Aguillon > Benjamin's Quotes

“Because it's there.”
― George Mallory

“Can you imagine if someone told Einstein, Okay, wrap up this relativity thing, we’re moving on to European history? Or said to Michelangelo, Time’s up for the ceiling, now go paint the walls. Yet versions of this snuffing out of creativity and boundary-stretching thought happen all the time in conventional schools.”
― Salman Khan, The One World Schoolhouse: Education Reimagined

“Enterprising government employees become consultants.”
― Jerry Z. Muller, The Tyranny of Metrics

“Thus the powerful tend to have a bias toward the status quo; our educational customs tend to perpetuate themselves, and because they interconnect with so many other aspects of our culture, they are extraordinarily difficult to change.”
― Salman Khan, The One World Schoolhouse: Education Reimagined

“Today’s world needs a workforce of creative, curious, and self-directed lifelong learners who are capable of conceiving and implementing novel ideas. Unfortunately, this is the type of student that the Prussian model actively suppresses.”
― Salman Khan, The One World Schoolhouse: Education Reimagined

“The problem is that as the pace of change accelerates all around us, the ability to learn new things may be the most important skill of all.”
― Salman Khan, The One World Schoolhouse: Education Reimagined

“there is only one sin, only one. And that is theft. Every other sin is a variation of theft. When you kill a man, you steal a life... you steal his wife's right to a husband, rob his children of a ather. When you tell a lie, you steal someone's right to the truth. When you cheat, you steal the right to fairness... there is no act more wretched than stealing.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts... for support rather than illumination.”
― Andrew Lang