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.
School typically doesn't prepare young people for real life - unless their lives are spent following instructions and pleasing others. In my opinion, that's why so many students who succeed in school fail in life.
An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
Our present educational systems are all paramilitary. Their aim is to produce servants or soldiers who obey without question and who accepts their training as the best possible training. Those who are most successful in the state are those who have the most interest in prolonging the state as it is; they are also those who have the most say in the educational system, and in particular by ensuring that the educational product they want is the most highly rewarded.
The colleges, while they provide us with libraries, furnish no professors of books; and I think no chair is so much needed.
One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.
Just what is it that academics have to fear if they stand up for common decency, instead of letting campus barbarians run amok?
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