51."Learning for learning's sake is an outdated concept. Today, education must serve an ulterior purpose and be directed toward clear goals."
52."Education is primarily a personal matter; it has little to do with school or college."
53."Censorship is rarely, if ever, justified."
54."People often look for similarities, even between very different things, and even when it is unhelpful or harmful to do so. Instead, a thing should be considered on its own terms; we should avoid the tendency to compare it to something else."
55."People are mistaken when they assume that the problems they confront are more complex and challenging than the problems faced by their predecessors. This illusion is eventually dispelled with increased knowledge and experience."
56."To remain vigorous, any academic field needs to be led by truly independent thinkers who are willing to ignore established boundaries and challenge long-standing assumptions."
57."The best way to teach—whether as an educator, employer, or parent—is to praise positive actions and ignore negative ones."
58."The best way to learn a new subject or skill is to study small segments or details in great depth rather than to start by trying to develop a sense of the whole."
59."College students—and people in general—prefer to follow directions rather than make their own decisions. Therefore, colleges should eliminate as many choices as possible in order to offer students clear direction."
60." 'Moderation in all things' is ill-considered advice. Rather, one should say, 'Moderation in most things,' since many areas of human concern require or at least profit from intense focus."
61."The purpose of education should be to create an academic environment that is separate from the outside world. This kind of environment is ideal because it allows students to focus on important ideas without being held back by practical concerns."
62."Although innovations such as video, computers, and the Internet seem to offer schools improved methods for instructing students, these technologies all too often distract from real learning."
63."Most people prefer restrictions and regulations to absolute freedom of choice, although they would probably deny such a preference."
64."Most people are taught that loyalty is a virtue. But loyalty—whether to one's friends, to one's school or place of employment, or to any institution—is all too often a destructive rather than a positive force."
65."Encouraging young people to believe that they can accomplish great things if they try hard enough is both misleading and potentially harmful."
66."Computers and video technology can make facsimiles of original works such as paintings and historical documents available to everyone. The great advantage of this new technology is that it will enable anyone—not just scholars—to conduct in-depth research without having access to the original works."
67."Conformity almost always leads to a deadening of individual creativity and energy."
68."Much of the information that people assume is 'factual' actually turns out to be inaccurate. Thus, any piece of information referred to as a 'fact' should be mistrusted since it may well be proven false in the future."
69."Although it is easy to respond positively to the work of another person or group, it is far more worthwhile to give negative feedback."
70."An individual's greatness cannot be judged objectively by his or her contemporaries; the most objective evaluators of a person's greatness are people who belong to a later time."
71."Societies should try to save every plant and animal species, regardless of the expense to humans in effort, time, and financial well-being."
72."The true value of a civilization is reflected in its artistic creations rather than in its scientific accomplishments."
73."Most societies do not take their greatest thinkers seriously, even when they claim to admire them."
74."We can usually learn much more from people whose views we share than from people whose views contradict our own; disagreement can cause stress and inhibit learning."
75."Competition is ultimately more beneficial than detrimental to society."
76."It is more important to allocate money for immediate, existing social problems than to spend it on long-term research that might help future generations."
77."No field of study can advance significantly unless outsiders bring their knowledge and experience to that field of study."
78."A nation should require all its students to study the same national curriculum until they enter college rather than allow schools in different parts of the nation to determine which academic courses to offer."
79."The most effective way to understand contemporary culture is to analyze the trends of its youth."
80."The video camera provides such an accurate and convincing record of contemporary life that it has become a more important form of documentation than written records."
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