6 Theodor Adorno Quotes on Education

Theodor Adorno quotes on education

16. 'Because thought has by now been perverted into the solving of assigned problems, even what is not assigned is processed like a problem.'

52. 'Intelligence is a moral category.'

63. 'No harm comes to man from outside alone: dumbness is the objective spirit.'

75. 'Rather, knowledge comes to us through a network of prejudices, opinions, innervations, self-corrections, presuppositions and exaggerations, in short through the dense, firmly-founded but by no means uniformly transparent medium of experience.'

94. 'The human is indissolubly linked with imitation: a human being only becomes human at all by imitating other human beings.'

98. 'The intellectuals themselves are already so heavily committed to what is endorsed in their isolated sphere, that they no longer desire anything that does not carry the highbrow tag.'