Theodor Adorno Quotes on Education
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'Because thought has by now been perverted into the solving of assigned problems, even what is not assigned is processed like a problem.'
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'Intelligence is a moral category.'
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'No harm comes to man from outside alone: dumbness is the objective spirit.'
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'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.'
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'The human is indissolubly linked with imitation: a human being only becomes human at all by imitating other human beings.'
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'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.'