The deductive method is the mode of using knowledge, and the inductive method the mode of acquiring it.
I think it is totally wrong and terribly harmful if education is defined as acquiring knowledge.
Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for apprehending all observable reality, and not merely as an instrument for acquiring specialized knowledge.
To furnish the means of acquiring knowledge is ... the greatest benefit that can be conferred upon mankind. It prolongs life itself and enlarges the sphere of existence.
He who gives up shyness in monetary dealings, in acquiring knowledge, in eating and in business, becomes happy.
Acquiring knowledge is a form of imitation.
Admitting one's ignorance is the first step in acquiring knowledge ...