#cat

A good book is an education of the heart. It enlarges your sense of human possibility what human nature is of what happens in the world. It's a creator of inwardness. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#education

Yeah. Floyd is his batman." His what?" Batman, like in the British army, each officer had a batman, a personal servant." You spend too much time reading, Spenser. You know more stuff that don't make you money than anybody I know. ↗

— Robert B. Parker

#britain #detectives #education #humor #irrelevance

The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves ↗

— Joseph Campbell

#education #inspiring #education

The child intuitively comprehends that although these stories are unreal, they are not untrue ... ↗

— Bruno Bettelheim

#comprehension #education #fiction #learning #nonfiction

It is clearly absurd to limit the term 'education' to a person's formal schooling. ↗

— Murray N. Rothbard

#school #education

I said I *liked* being half-educated; you were so much more *surprised* at everything when you were ignorant. ↗

— Gerald Durrell

#learning #surprise #wonder #education

The most essential and fundamental aspect of culture is the study of literature, since this is an education in how to picture and understand human situations. ↗

— Iris Murdoch

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One of the disadvantages of almost universal education was the fact that all kinds of persons acquired a familiarity with one's favorite writers. It gave one a curious feeling; it was like seeing a drunken stranger wrapped in one's dressing gown. ↗

— Stella Gibbons

#humour #education

The home environment can undo a lot you try to do at school. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

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Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing ↗

— Warren Buffett

#risk #education