#cat

I read in the newspapers they are going to have 30 minutes of intellectual stuff on television every Monday from 7:30 to 8. to educate America. They couldn't educate America if they started at 6:30. ↗

— Groucho Marx

#america #educate #every #going #i

All the evidence that we have indicates that it is reasonable to assume in practically every human being, and certainly in almost every newborn baby, that there is an active will toward health, an impulse towards growth, or towards the actualization. ↗

— Abraham Maslow

#almost #assume #baby #being #certainly

I attended private Catholic schools in Paris and Los Angeles through high school. ↗

— Natalie Massenet

#attended #catholic #catholic schools #high #high school

The most necessary task of civilization is to teach people how to think. It should be the primary purpose of our public schools. The mind of a child is naturally active, it develops through exercise. Give a child plenty of exercise, for body and brain. The trouble with our way of educating is that it does not give elasticity to the mind. It casts the brain into a mold. It insists that the child must accept. It does not encourage original thought or reasoning, and it lays more stress on memory than observation. ↗

— Thomas A. Edison

#learning #education

For if you do, then shouldn't we blame the whole fraternity system? And if the whole fraternity system is guilty, then isn't this an indictment of our educational institutions in general? I put it to you, Greg - isn't this an indictment of our entire American society? ↗

— Tim Matheson

#american society #blame #educational #entire #fraternity

I come from a very rough background, and I'm saying that if you work hard and dedicate yourself that you can make it, too. ↗

— Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

#come #dedicate #hard #i #make

The truth is, no matter how trying they become, babies two and under don't have the ability to make moral choices, so they can't be bad. That category only exists in the adult mind. ↗

— Anne Cassidy

#adult #babies #bad #become #category

Our purpose is to educate as well as to entertain. ↗

— Curtis Mayfield

#entertain #our #purpose #well

I had found again and again that the most aberrant population of a species - often having reached species rank, and occasionally classified even as a separate genus - occurred at a peripheral location, indeed usually at the most isolated peripheral location. ↗

— Ernst Mayr

#classified #even #found #genus #had

The poor prey on one another because their lives offer no hope and communicate the tragic message to these human beings that they have no possibility to attain a decent standard of living. ↗

— Thabo Mbeki

#attain #because #beings #communicate #decent