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Can teachers successfully educate children to think for themselves if teachers are not treated as professionals who think for themselves? ↗

— Diane Ravitch

#school-reform #teachers #teachers-know-best #death

Science replaces private prejudice with public, verifiable evidence. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#education #enlighten #evidence #ignorance #knowledge

Today our youth is preoccupied with being rich and famous but is truly missing something. Sadly...even money won't last if you're not educated. Knowledge Is Everything! ↗

— Timothy Pina

#legend-of-the-peace-panda #education

As for myself, I always willingly acknowledge my own self as the principal cause of every good and of every evil which may befall me; therefore, I have always found myself capable of being my own pupil, and ready to love my teacher. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

#libertine #education

What we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts. ↗

— Thomas Henry Huxley

#faith #religion #science #skepticism #faith

We live in a nation where education and free thought are tantamount to treason, and I have to ask, under these circumstances, is treason such a bad thing? ↗

— Michel Templet

#philosophy #politics #education

I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education. ↗

— Tallulah Bankhead

#bible #call #dice #i #i can

In order to align your life choices with your values, you will need to inquire about the effects of your actions (and inactions) on yourself and others. Although we are always stumbling upon new knowledge that shifts our choices and life direction, bringing conscious inquiry to life means that we continually ask questions that lead us to the information we need to make thoughtful decisions. Asking questions is liberating because we develop great understanding and discover more choices with our new knowledge. ↗

— Zoe Weil

#education #humane #informed-decisions #liberating #vegan

I suppose there is no place in the world where snobbery is quite so ever-present or where it is cultivated in such refined and subtle forms as in an English public school. Here at least one cannot say that English ‘education’ fails to do its job. You forget your Latin and Greek within a few months of leaving school — I studied Greek for eight or ten years, and now, at thirty-three, I cannot even repeat the Greek alphabet — but your snobbishness, unless you persistently root it out like the bindweed it is, sticks by you till your grave. ↗

— George Orwell

#england #public-school #snobbery #education

We need to theorize the meaning of beauty in our lives so that we can educate for critical consciousness, talking through the issues: how we acquire and spend money, how we feel about beauty, what the place of beauty is in our lives when we lack material privilege and even basic resources for living, the meaning and significance of luxury, and the politics of envy. ↗

— Bell Hooks

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