Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors.
Partisan politics has no place in the classroom.
If we learn from those only, of whose lives and opinions we altogether approve, we shall have to turn from many of the highest and profoundest minds.
A university is not a political party, and an education is not an indoctrination.
The primary task of a useful teacher is to teach his students to recognize 'inconvenient' facts - I mean facts that are inconvenient for their party opinions.
Education means to bring out wisdom. Indoctrination means to push in knowledge.
Today, education does not give you the wisdom and the understanding; it only indoctrinates you to believe something. So the mind knows very less but accepts so many things; it may be science, it may be technology, it may be anything.
The universities deceive when they say they have no agenda other than to open minds.
If you start with the mindset that you know nothing, you will learn a lot that nobody knew before.
Working with children is the easiest part of educating for democracy, because children are still undefeated and have no stake in being prejudiced.
