Teaching Johnny to Think Quotes

“I believe that a proper education in grade school would achieve much more for the general public than getting an M.A. in the best college today ever would. You do not need millions of courses across decades and decades. That is a modern absurdity. It is the result of a worthless, self-perpetuating educational bureaucracy. Even with the explosion of knowledge, you can give people a proper, thorough education by the time they are a normal high school graduate.”
― Leonard Peikoff, Teaching Johnny to Think

“A philosophy of education, in short, is essential to being a proper parent; otherwise, you are merely turning your child over to blind chance.”
― Leonard Peikoff, Teaching Johnny to Think

“I say close down the schools of education. At most, all that is required is a one-year post-high school course on practical advice: tips on motivating;”
― Leonard Peikoff, Teaching Johnny to Think

“The language and themes of the classics are too difficult for today’s students to grasp; one does not teach Shakespeare to savages, or to civilized children being turned into savages.”
― Leonard Peikoff, Teaching Johnny to Think

“Clarity is achieved when concretes are united by a concept and a concept is seen to be a union of those concretes. The two gravest breaches of clarity are: a set of unrelated instances that causes too much pressure on consciousness and a floating abstraction untied to reality. These”
― Leonard Peikoff, Teaching Johnny to Think