#cat

The truth is that as soon as we are no longer obliged to earn our living, we no longer know what to do with our life and recklessly squander it. ↗

— André Gide

#vocation #life

Unemployment insurance is a pre-paid vacation for freeloaders. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#unemployment #vacation

Our home had many books due principally to the educational interests of my sister and two brothers, all of whom where serious students engaged in professional studies; my sister became a doctor of medicine and my brothers became lawyers. ↗

— Frederick Reines

#books #brothers #doctor #due #educational

I've had two proposals since I've been a widow. I am a wonderful catch, you know. I have a lot of money. ↗

— Ruth Rendell

#am #been #catch #had #i

When we are young, we spend much time and pains in filling our note-books with all definitions of Religion, Love, Poetry, Politics, Art, in the hope that, in the course of a few years, we shall have condensed into our encyclopaedia the net value of all the theories at which the world has yet arrived. But year after year our tables get no completeness, and at last we discover that our curve is a parabola, whose arcs will never meet. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#facts #learning #life #life-lessons #mathematics

It only becomes art if it touches other people. ↗

— Andreas Eschbach

#communication #music #performing #philosophical #philosophy

..English teachers often take a right-wrong stance. I'd rather my students take a thinking stance. ↗

— Jeff Anderson

#educational-quotes #teaching #education

The smartest thing we can do to create high-wage jobs and grow our economy is to keep our focus on education. ↗

— Bill Richardson

#economy #education #focus #grow #high-wage

Criticism talks a good deal of nonsense, but even its nonsense is a useful force. It keeps the question of art before the world, insists upon its importance. ↗

— Henry James

#education #theory #art

We conclude that, simultaneously with the organization of the colleges, there should be at Santa Cruz an organization by disciplines, whose units would have a voice in appointments and promotions, in course of programs, and in the allocation of funds for research. ↗

— Abraham Robinson

#appointments #colleges #conclude #course #cruz