#book

Nobody can decide for himself whether he is going to be a human being. The only question open to him is whether he will be an ignorant undeveloped one or one who has sought to reach the highest point he is capable of attaining. ↗

— Robert Maynard Hutchins

#education #reading #education

I also did some jail time a few years ago. Spent a whole summer in jail reading books. I pumped a ton of new knowledge and new thinking into myself. ↗

— Tommy Lee

#education #jail #motley-crue #reading #tommy-lee

As many as six out of ten American adults have never read a book of any kind, and the bulletins from the nation’s educational frontiers read like the casualty reports from a lost war. ↗

— Lewis H. Lapham

#education

Donde no hay libros hace frío. Vale para las casas, las ciudades, los países. Un frío cataclismo, un páramo de amnesia ↗

— María Elena Walsh

#education #reading #education

An English writer telephoned me from London, asking questions. One was, ‘What’s your alma mater?’ I told him, ‘Books. ↗

— Malcolm X

#books #education #education

Books have to be read (worse luck, for it takes a long time); it is the only way of discovering what they contain. ↗

— E.M. Forster

#education #learning #reading #scholorship #education

It appeared clear to me - partly because of the lies that filled my history textbooks - that the intent of formal education was to inculcate obedience to a social order that did not deserve my loyalty. Defiance seemed the only dignified response to the adult world. ↗

— Timothy B. Tyson

#edcuation #history #inculcating #lies #loyalty

But one learns from books and reels only that certain things can be done. Actual learning requires that you do those things. ↗

— Frank Herbert

#books #education #learning #education

Give a man a hoe and he is something to exploit. Give him a book and he is something to fear. ↗

— Eric Burns

#education #education

What gunpowder did for war, the printing press has done for the mind. ↗

— Wendell Phillips

#education #gunpowder #guns #mind #printing-press