R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

Memory and creativity are essential to education, but if you teach memory incorrectly, it is a total waste of time, and it will inhibit learning.

What could be wiser and to give people who can think the leisure in which to do it.

We have fallen into the bad and unquestioned habit of thinking that our educational system is broken, but it is working on all cylinders. What our educational system aims to produce is cultural amnesia, a wholesale lack of curiosity, history-less free agents, and educational goals composed of content-free processes and unexamined buzz-words like “critical thinking,” “diversity,” “ways of knowing,” “social justice,” and “cultural competence.”

Education is the best way to relieve someone from a bad thought process.

If you just, pretty much, take a random 15-month-old, just sit and watch them for 10 minutes and count out how many experiments, how much thinking you see going on, and it will put the most brilliant scientist to shame.

The mere imparting of information is not education.

Education must be aimed at creating a wider imagination in the child, not at suppressing. The child's mind must be set free.

Reading makes you smarter. It really does.

If I could do anything in my life and be remembered for anything, I would like to be remembered for helping the world see the value of physical engagement with ideas.

Education would be so much more effective if its purpose were to ensure that, by the time they leave school, every boy and girl should know how much they don’t know and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it

People must be educated not only with accurate information but also with the aim of shaping new attitudes.

Education is the foundation of social progress and economic development.

If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it .... For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind?

The human being acquires a habit of learning. He learns to learn.

A good education alters the judgment and manners…

The finest minds seem to be formed rather by efforts at original thinking, by endeavors to form new combinations, and to discover new truths, than by passively receiving the impressions of other men's ideas.

The savage and women are not what we call intellectual because they are not taught to know and manipulate the materials of knowledge.

If we educate our kids well, they will be more competitive.

Education can become a self-fulfilling activity, liberating in and of itself.

The cool thing about reading is that when you read a short story or you read something that takes your mind and expands where your thoughts can go, that's powerful.

By the time I got to college, mind expansion had lost its appeal.

I will say this: I know no wise person who doesn't read a lot. I suspect that you can read on the computer now and get a lot of benefit out of it, but I doubt that it'll work as well as reading print worked for me.

I think people's imaginations are being neutered by the amount of access they can get to information just by pressing a button.

I believe education is much more important than we assume.