Obsolete System Quotes

It's quite fashionable to say that the educational system is broken. It's not broken. It's wonderfully constructed. It's just that we don't need it anymore.

People notice all kinds of stuff sloshing around in the classification system and that makes them think it's OK to leak. it’s like tuning an Edsel. When done, your car is tuned, but it's still a really old car that may not get you where you want to go. The classification system is haunted by Cold War ghosts and demons. …All the incentives operate in the direction of keeping things secret.

For all my criticisms of the current system, it doesn't mean that I would like to return to the old one.

I simply make this point, that the monarchy in so far, as it is identified with what is, in my opinion, an obsolete class structure, is making a mistake, and the task of those who are responsible for the conduct of the monarchical institution is to detach it from that class structure.

The E.U., its institutions, structure and ways of working are an anachronism.

Our political organization, based as it is on an eighteenth-century separation of powers and on a nineteenth-century nationalist state, is generally recognized to be semiobselete.

The Indian education system, like the Indian bureaucratic system, is Victorian and still in the 19th century. Our schools are still designed to produce clerks for an empire that does not exist anymore.