"Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.“

-John Maynard Keynes

posted in education

John Maynard Keynes quote about education: "Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent."

Other Quotes

Discover more inspiring quotes from our collection

"The decadent international but individualistic capitalism in the hands of which we found ourselves after the war is not a success. It is not intelligent. It is not beautiful. It is not just. It is not virtuous. And it doesn't deliver the goods."

-John Maynard Keynes

"The decadent international but individualistic capitalism in the hands of which we found ourselves after the war is not a success. It is not intelligent. It is not beautiful. It is not just. It is not virtuous. And it doesn't deliver the goods."

-John Maynard Keynes

successView Quote

"The day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs, and the arena of the heart and the head will be occupied or reoccupied, by our real problems - the problems of life and of human relations, of creation and behavior and religion."

-John Maynard Keynes

religionView Quote

"The disruptive powers of excessive national fecundity may have played a greater part in bursting the bonds of convention than either the power of ideas or the errors of autocracy."

-John Maynard Keynes

powerView Quote

"Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older."

-John Maynard Keynes

moneyView Quote

"The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future."

-John Maynard Keynes

moneyView Quote

Same Category

More quotes in this category

"In Holland, they have come to precisely the same conclusion. There they have adopted a system of secular education, because they have found it impracticable to unite the religious bodies in any system of combined religious instruction."

-Richard Cobden

educationView Quote

"I confess that for fifteen years my efforts in education, and my hopes of success in establishing a system of national education, have always been associated with the idea of coupling the education of this country with the religious communities which exist."

-Richard Cobden

educationView Quote

"I studied secondary education."

-Jim McKay

educationView Quote

"I feel that education needs an overhaul - courses are obsolete and grades are on the way out."

-Kent McCord

educationView Quote

"I feel like in America, we don't have a kid problem. You think about all these issues that these kids are dealing with, we have an adult problem. We have adults that do not place the priority on our kids to get a valuable education."

-Alonzo Mourning

educationView Quote

"Even on education, his one accomplishment, the Leave No Child Behind Act, and he has left it unfunded."

-Sidney Blumenthal

educationView Quote