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This is surely the strongest endorsement of education. Einstein nails what Emma Goldman said, "The most violent element in society is ignorance." There is such
by nonrandomstring 3y ago
This is surely the strongest endorsement of education. Einstein nails
what Emma Goldman said, "The most violent element in society is
ignorance."
There is such straightforward simplicity to his writing that it is
over-interpreted today. Chiefly, Einstein's writing is compassionate,
often comparable to Erich Fromm. Here we take him as an "elitist"
insulting "the masses", who are by our definition today "poor".
He often calls people idiots and is scathing about the uses to which
we put technology;
" I fear the day that technology will surpass our human
interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots."
"Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a
pathological criminal"
Albert Einstein would not survive for one moment in what we call
"Academia" today. One of my students once remarked that he'd have been
a Ted Kaczynski, only he built bigger bombs.
Yet my favourite, which I'd hope people of the 7th Millennium will
read and nod at:
"In any conflict between humanity and technology, humanity will win."
- Gys 3y ago"In any conflict between humanity and technology, humanity will win." Yes, because there is always hope ;)
- jareklupinski 3y agoonly because 'technology' was created by humans, and because humans write bugs, bugs can be exploited to win it's still humans v humans at the end of the day
- mistrial9 3y ago.. if we make space for it, then it will grow
- tdba 3y agoHumanity will win until we don't
- digging 3y agoIt's a prediction that only seems true because there's still some human around to state it. Rather like proclaiming that I am certainly immortal because I've never died.
- tempodox 3y ago> In any conflict between humanity and technology, humanity will win. ChatGPT would like to have a word with you.
- josu 3y ago>"In any conflict between humanity and technology, humanity will win." If humanity loses even once it's Game Over.
- Obscurity4340 3y agoIts seems more like its a battle between "Humanity" and "Inhumanity" and inhumanity is handing all our non-elite asses to us
- Aeolun 3y ago> "I fear the day that technology will surpass our human interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots." He predicted the effect of mobile phones.
- tmacam 3y ago" I fear the day that technology will surpass our human interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots." While I loved this quote (because I aligns with my opinion), it doesn't look it is from Einstein. At least searching for it in google I've found quite a few pages precisely debunking this attribution.
- imnnos 3y ago> Albert Einstein would not survive for one moment in what we call "Academia" today. He couldn't even make it in academia back then though, no? He failed to get a teaching position so he became a patent clerk, which is where he published his theories of relativity. One would expect that even today, papers of that magnitude would secure you a top professorship, even if you barely publish anything else.