It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to.
J.D. SalingerOur great mistake in education is, as it seems to me, the worship of book-learning–the confusion of instruction and education. We strain the memory instead of cultivating the mind. The children in our elementary schools are wearied by the mechanical act of writing, and the interminable intricacies of spelling; they are oppressed by columns of dates, by lists of kings and places, which convey no definite idea to their minds, and have no near relation to their daily wants and occupations; while in our public schools the same unfortunate results are produced by the weary monotony of Latin and Greek grammar. We ought to follow exactly the opposite course with children–to give them a wholesome variety of mental food, and endeavor to cultivate their tastes, rather than to fill their minds with dry facts. The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn. What does it matter if the pupil know a little more or a little less? A boy who leaves school knowing much, but hating his lessons, will soon have forgotten almost all he ever learned; while another who had acquired a thirst for knowledge, even if he had learned little, would soon teach himself more than the first ever knew.
John LubbockTags: science books education knowledge learning hate mind memory mistake teaching forget instruction facts worship importance confusion book-learning cultivation dry-facts lessons mental-food pupil strain tastes
I try to stay in a constant state of confusion just because of the expression it leaves on my face.
Johnny DeppMuch unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
Fyodor DostoevskyTags: communication confusion
If you're not confused, you're not paying attention.
Tom PetersTags: complexity leadership confusion
What is important is to spread confusion, not eliminate it.
Salvador DalíWith great power often comes great confusion.
Dan AllenPeople don't expect too much from literature. They just want to know they're not alone with being confused.
Jonathan AmesTags: reading literature confusion
Whatever happens, they say afterwards, it must have been fate. People are always a little confused about this, as they are in the case of miracles. When someone is saved from certain death by a strange concatenation of circumstances, they say that's a miracle. But of course if someone is killed by a freak chain of events -- the oil spilled just there, the safety fence broken just there -- that must also be a miracle. Just because it's not nice doesn't mean it's not miraculous.
Terry PratchettTags: fate death miracles confusion circumstance saved miraculous certain-death killed
He didnt know what was defeating him, but he sensed it was something he could not cope with, something that was far beyond his power to control or even at this point in time comprehend.
Hubert Selby Jr.Tags: tiredness confusion defeat
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