Contra-Academia: Quotes from the late Ka Doroy Valencia's "Over a Cup of Coffee"

6 Feb '75
"Our universities graduate students and arm them with diplomas. They often forget to arm them with wisdom. The graduates go into the world unarmed for battles they must face."

20 Feb '75
"You'll end up better if, instead of studying, you tried to learn."

23 Nov '78
"A college diploma attests that one has learned to teach himself to do better. The trouble is that we mistake the diploma to mean that the holder became learned."

13 March '83
"We're wasting time and effort to educate people in school. If we were to teach them only logic for themselves we will have a more pleasant world."

20 March '83
"Self-study is the antidote to incompetent teachers."

20 March '83
"Our problem is that we have too many college graduates who failed to get an education."

10 April '83
"A college diploma is a useless crutch. You'll still be judged by what you can do, not by what you think you can do."

24 July '83
"Having an education and being an educated man are two different things."

23 June '85
"The best teacher is not one who tells you about what it is but one who tells you how to find it out for yourself."