On: How to be mediocre and be happy with yourself

[Luc]

Not Einstein. It's never Einstein. The greatest tragedy in life is to misquote Einstein.

http://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/04/06/fish-climb/

[dTal → Luc]

  "The greatest tragedy in life is to misquote Einstein."
  	--Albert Einstein

[dredmorbius → Luc]

That was an incredibly insightful QI.

Helps even more if you've some idea what was going on in education, economics, and industry through this period as well.

[ioda → dredmorbius]

On Education let me quote a popular writer from my place , Kamala Surayya (Madhavikutty) -

"I feel formal education here makes mediocrity's out of everybody. I don't think any genius can survive caught in the machine of formal education. It works like a bulldozer with which everybody is brought to a low level. They won't tolerate brilliance, they won't tolerate independent thinking. I don't believe that one can be a pundit, great scholar, by digesting what other scholars have written. I think we must find our own conclusions from our experiences."

On Economics and Industry - It is interesting to look at the fundamental truths on how value get generated and distributed. But it calls for a different write up all together

[icc97 → Luc]

That quote investigation is definitely not mediocre. That puts snopes to shame. Now of course snopes feels mediocre. Sorry snopes, I didn't mean it.