Siva Vaidhyanathan quotes

“Education is an imprecise process, a dance, and a collaborative experience.”
-- Siva Vaidhyanathan

Source : "What’s the Matter With MOOCs?". www.chronicle.com. July 6, 2012.

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“Culture is Anarchistic if it is alive at all.”
-- Siva Vaidhyanathan

Source : Siva Vaidhyanathan (2005). “The Anarchist in the Library: How the Clash Between Freedom and Control Is Hacking the Real World and Crashing the System”, p.83, Basic Books

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“[T]he public library is where those without money, power, access, university affiliation, or advanced degrees can get information for free.”
-- Siva Vaidhyanathan

Source : Siva Vaidhyanathan (2005). “The Anarchist in the Library: How the Clash Between Freedom and Control Is Hacking the Real World and Crashing the System”, p.124, Basic Books

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“It turns out inconvenience was a really important part of our lives, and we didn't realize it.”
-- Siva Vaidhyanathan

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“The mark of an educated man is the ability to make a reasoned guess on the basis of insufficient information.”

“Education for all seems to be the product of a type of distributive justice that is in no way related to the individual.”

“True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.”

“Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education... no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.”

Source : Abraham Flexner (1994). “Universities: American, English, German”, p.302, Transaction Publishers

“If an ignorant person is attracted by the things of the world, that is bad. But if a learned person is thus attracted, it is worse.”

“What's interesting about the process of acting is how often you don't know what you're doing.”

“My primary process of perceiving is muscular and visual.”

“The democratic process on which this nation was founded should not be restricted to the political process, but should be applied to the industrial operation as well.”

“The primary reason for a tariff is that it enables the exploitation of the domestic consumer by a process indistinguishable from sheer robbery.”

“Give it up for the process that leads to childbirth!”