Famous quotes containing the words state and/or schools:
“A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.”
—Edmund Burke (1729–1797)
“The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion—these are the most valuable coin of the thinker at work. But in most schools guessing is heavily penalized and is associated somehow with laziness.”
—Jerome S. Bruner (b. 1915)