#cat

NSF is the only federal agency with a proven track record of selecting education projects through a rigorous, careful and competitive process that draws on a wide variety of experts from outside government. ↗

— Bob Inglis

#careful #competitive #draws #education #experts

I do not personally agree with some of the positions that Mr. Gonzales has advocated, but that should come as no surprise, because I do not agree with many of the proposals made by the man who nominated him, President Bush. ↗

— Daniel Inouye

#agree #because #bush #come #gonzales

I think you learn more if you're laughing at the same time. ↗

— Mary Ann Shaffer

#humor #education

All I have learned, I learned from books. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#education #lifelong-learning #lincoln #reading #self-education

School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is. ↗

— Ivan Illich

#homeschool #homeschooling #education

I thought that my movie career was finished. I was quite happy to dedicate myself 100% to the theater. Surprisingly enough, I've never gotten so many work offers. It's so exciting, this feeling of a new beginning after 40. ↗

— Amy Irving

#beginning #career #dedicate #enough #exciting

Only a very few can be learned, but all can be Christian, all can be devout, and – I shall boldly add – all can be theologians. ↗

— Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus

#education #learning #religion #theology #education

Civilizations rise and fall on confidence. America had figured out a way to borrow money to manufacture it. ↗

— Ron Suskind

#materialism #optimism #education

Homeschool history tells of more than two centuries of home-teaching influence on American education, although it has been largely obscured by the drawn curtains of conventional bias. ↗

— Raymond S. Moore

#homeschool #education

Vagueness is at times an indication of nearness to a perfect truth. ↗

— Charles Ives

#nearness #perfect #times #truth #vagueness