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The fate of the humanities faculty in the burgeoning world of for-profit higher education is easy to predict, but painful to contemplate. Universities that, by virtue of their very mission, validate economic efficiency and productivity above all else also sanction apathy toward the humanities. (p. 97) ↗

— Frank Donoghue

#humanities #education

I’m learning men cannot teach men to build their castles with bricks. time must do that. ↗

— Darnell Lamont Walker

#education

Education - The bringing up, as of a child; instruction; formation of manners. Education comprehends all that instruction and discipline which is intended to enlighten the understanding, correct the temper, and form the manners and habits of youth, and fit them for usefulness in their future stations." (1828 Edition of Noah Webster) ↗

— Zan Tyler

#education

One never knows when one is going to get ambushed into learning something. ↗

— David N. Perkins

#education

Shall we educate ourselves in what is known, and then casting away all we have acquired, turn to ignorance for aid to guide us among the unknown? ↗

— Michael Faraday

#research #education

There is no shame in not knowing your history, the shame lies in not finding out. ↗

— Habeeb Akande

#history #knowledge #shame #education

His enthusiasm and willingness to use what he learned made him get ahead in Spanish. ↗

— Elisabeth Elliot

#enthusiasm #humility #education

For you not to look scandalous, act educated. ↗

— Jerson Armecin

#education

Your identity or potentials need to develop relevance, get education, possess content, technical improvement to be relevant to time and the present context. The anointing of yesterday will not do for the work of today.bit.ly/PEQLAm ↗

— Ikechukwu Joseph

#education

Whereas in Western countries the constitution merely had to guarantee the rights of a per-existing civil society and culture, in Russia it also had to create these. It had to educate society - and the state itself - into the values and ideas of liberal constitutionalism. ↗

— Orlando Figes

#education