Roger Scruton
"We should not value education as a means to prosperity but prosperity as a means to education. Only then will our priorities be right. For education unlike prosperity is an end in itself. .. power and influence come through the acquisition of useless knowledge. . . irrelevant subjects bring understanding of the human condition by forcing the student to stand back from it."
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"We should not value education as a means to prosperity but prosperity as a means to education. Only then will our priorities be right. For education unlike prosperity is an end in itself. .. power and influence come through the acquisition of useless knowledge. . . irrelevant subjects bring understanding of the human condition by forcing the student to stand back from it."
"لا ينبغي أن نُقدّر التعليم وسيلةً للرخاء، بل الرخاء وسيلةً للتعليم. عندئذٍ فقط تستقيم أولوياتنا. فالتعليم، بخلاف الرخاء، غايةٌ في ذاته. إن القوة والنفوذ يأتيان من اكتساب المعرفة التي لا تُرجى منها منفعةٌ مباشرة. والمواضيع التي تبدو غير ذات صلة تُفضي إلى فهمٍ أعمق للوضع الإنساني، بإجبار الطالب على التراجع والنظر إليه من مسافة."
Roger Scruton
"... it is not the taste considered in itself, that we hold to our lips, and you can no more understand the virtues of a wine through a blind tasting than you could understand the virtues of a woman through a blindfold kiss."
"ليس الطعم بحد ذاته ما نلامسه بشفاهنا، ولا يمكنك أن تدرك فضائل الخمر بتذوق أعمى، تمامًا كما لا يمكنك أن تدرك فضائل امرأة بقبلة معصوبة العينين."
Roger Scruton
"A society no more exists for the satisfaction of human needs, than a plant exists for its own health."
Roger Scruton
"Ideological opinion is not merely distinct from knowledge but the enemy of knowledge."
Roger Scruton
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