Take away the paradox from a thinker and you have a professor.

It is the process of mis-education that inhibits the full potential of a nation.

What you don't know won't hurt you. A dubious maxim: sometimes what you don't know can hurt you very much.

Our big mistake was teaching them to read. We won't make that mistake again.

If I'd been older I would've asked what it was right away, but I didn't because I wanted to postpone the moment when I would know what it was. In stories I'd read, I'd come across the words nameless dread. They'd just been words then, but now that's exactly what I felt.

What you don't know won't hurt you.

Maybe I don't really want to know what's going on. Maybe I'd rather not know. Maybe I couldn't bear to know. The Fall was a fall from innocence to knowledge.

Our big mistake was teaching them to read. We won't do that again.

Learning is not done to you, it is something you choose to do.

The right information brings knowledge. And knowledge is power. Sharing it is empowerment.

Let's define dumb as being different from stupid. Dumb means you don't know what you're supposed to know. Stupid means you know it but make bad choices. […] Dumb used to be a by-product of lack of access, bad teachers, or poor parenting. Today, dumb is a choice, one that's made by individuals who choose not to learn. If you don't know what you need to know, that's fixable. But first you have to want to fix it.

When you learn to listen to your fear, you've found a compass that can show you what matters.