Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon. Education is the process of changing blissful ignorance into some other kind of ignorance. The most widespread form of compulsory education is experience. Another thing an education should include is the knowledge of what to do with it. Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains.
Technology enables man to gain control over everything except technology.
Technology improves things so fast that by the time we can afford the best, there's something better. Most subjects at universities are taught for no other purpose than that they may be retaught when the students become teachers. Everybody is now so busy teaching that nobody has any time to learn. A teacher is a person who knows all the answers, but only when she asks the questions. Good teachers cost a lot, but poor teachers cost a lot more.