Educational bureaucracies dull a child's questing sensitivity. The young must be dampened down. Never let them know how good they can be. That brings change. Spend lots of committee time talking about how to deal with exceptional students. Don't spend any time dealing with how the conventional teacher feels threatened by emerging talents and squelches them because of a deep-seated desire to feel superior and safe in a safe environment.
Frank HerbertWhat do such machines really do? They increase the number of things we can do without thinking. Things we do without thinking-thereโs the real danger.
Frank HerbertThere are problems in this universe for which there are no answers. Nothing. Nothing can be done.
Frank HerbertAnswers are a perilous grip on the universe. They can appear sensible yet explain nothing.
Frank HerbertPower attracts the corruptible. Suspect all who seek it ... We should grant power over our affairs only to those who are reluctant to hold it and then only under conditions that increase that reluctance.
Frank Herbert