Pragmatic Skills Quotes & Sayings

An education, then, is a constellation of practices, rituals, and routines that inculcates a particular vision of the good life by inscribing or infusing that vision into the heart (the gut) by means of material, embodied practices. And this will be true even of the most instrumentalist, pragmatic programs of education (such as those that now tend to dominate public schools and universities bent on churning out "skilled workers") that see their task primarily as providing information, because behind this is a vision of the good life that understands human flourishing primarily in terms of production and consumption. Behind the veneer of a "value-free" education concerned with providing skills, knowledge, and information is an educational vision that remains formative. — James K.A. Smith

We're not like pop musicians who have to perform the same top ten tunes every night of a tour. — Oscar Peterson

Nowadays, everybody fancies himself an expert in government and wants to have a say. — B.F. Skinner

Before one can learn truth, one must unlearn lies. — Matthew Woodring Stover

I can't say it's not painful being estranged from most of my family. I wish it could be otherwise. — LaToya Jackson

Often one's dear friend talks something which one scruples to call rigmarole. — Thomas De Quincey