Education Automation Quotes

“...primarily the individual is going to study at home.”
― Richard Buckminster Fuller, Education Automation: Freeing the scholar to return to his studies

“I would say, then, that you are faced with a future in which education is going to be number one amongst the great world industries.”
― Richard Buckminster Fuller, Education Automation: Freeing the scholar to return to his studies

“We as economic society are going to have to pay our whole population to go to school and pay it to stay at school.”
― Richard Buckminster Fuller, Education Automation: Freeing the scholar to return to his studies

“From my viewpoint, by far the greatest challenge facing the young today is that of responding and conforming only to their own most delicately insistent intuitive awarenesses of what the truth seems to them to be, as based on their own experiences and not on what others have interpreted to be the truth regarding events of which neither they nor others have experience-based knowledge.

This also means not yielding unthinkingly to 'in' movements or to crowd psychology. This involves assessing thoughtfully one's own urges. It involves understanding, but not being swayed by, the spontaneous group spirit of youth. It involves thinking before acting in every instance. It involves eschewing all loyalties to other than the truth and love through which the cosmic integrity and absolute wisdom we identify inadequately by the name 'God' speaks to each of us directly-- and speaks only through our individual awareness of truth, and through our most spontaneous and powerful emotions of love and compassion.”
― R. Buckminster Fuller, Education Automation: Freeing the scholar to return to his studies