Karl Popper Quotes About Students

Quotes about: Students

• Instead of encouraging the student to devote himself to his studies for the sake of studying, instead of encouraging in him a real love for his subject and for inquiry, he is encouraged to study for the sake of his personal career; he is led to acquire only such knowledge as is serviceable in getting him over the hurdles which he must clear for the sake of his advancement.

  Karl Popper

  Education, Real, Careers

  Karl R. Popper (2013). “The Open Society and Its Enemies”, p.128, Princeton University Press

• No book can ever be finished. While working on it we learn just enough to find it immature the moment we turn away from it

  Karl Popper

  Inspirational, Letting Go, Book

  Karl Popper, Piers Norris Turner, Jeremy Shearmur (2014). “After The Open Society: Selected Social and Political Writings”, p.180, Routledge

• It is clear that everybody interested in science must be interested in world 3 objects. A physical scientist, to start with, may be interested mainly in world 1 objects--say crystals and X-rays. But very soon he must realize how much depends on our interpretation of the facts, that is, on our theories, and so on world 3 objects. Similarly, a historian of science, or a philosopher interested in science must be largely a student of world 3 objects.

  Karl Popper

  Rays, World, May

  Karl Popper (2005). “Unended Quest: An Intellectual Autobiography”, p.213, Routledge

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