Education ought to foster the wish for truth, not the conviction that some particular creed is the truth.
Interpretation
Education should encourage a pursuit of truth rather than adherence to a specific belief.
Bertrand Russell emphasizes the importance of education in nurturing an inquisitive mindset that seeks out truth and knowledge. He warns against the dangers of dogmatism, where individuals become rigidly attached to a particular belief system, suggesting instead that education should empower individuals to explore and discover truths for themselves.
In practice
In a graduation speech, highlighting the importance of critical thinking over rote memorization.
St. Paul introduced an entirely novel view of marriage, that it existed primarily to prevent the sin of fornication. It is just as if one were to maintain that the sole reason for baking bread is to prevent people from stealing cake.
Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.
Of these austerer virtues the love of truth is the chief, and in mathematics, more than elsewhere, the love of truth may find encouragement for waning faith. Every great study is not only an end in itself, but also a means of creating and sustaining a lofty habit of mind; and this purpose should be kept always in view throughout the teaching and learning of mathematics.
At all times, except when a monarch could enforce his will, war has been facilitated by the fact that vigorous males, confident of victory, enjoyed it, while their females admired them for their prowess.
Moreover, the attitude that one ought to believe such and such a proposition, independently of the question whether there is evidence in its favor, is an attitude which produces hostility to evidence and causes us to close our minds to every fact that does not suit our prejudices.
Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
Access to quality education has enabled me to reach far beyond the Bangladeshi village I grew up in.
No adult can bear a child’s burden or grow up in his stead.
As a reader, you’re often inside one or more character heads, so you know what they’re feeling, even if they can’t exactly say it, or they say it so obliquely that the other characters don’t catch it. Readers are frequently reminded of the gulf between what people say and what they mean, and such moments prod us to become more attuned to gesture, tone, and language.
Educate a woman and you educate her family. Educate a girl and you change the future.
Woe to that nation whose literature is disturbed by the intervention of power. Because that is not just a violation against "freedom of print," it is the closing down of the heart of the nation, a slashing to pieces of its memory.
The librarian's mission should be, not like up to now, a mere handling of the book as an object, but rather a know how (mise au point) of the book as a vital function.
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