#cat

The working class had imposed upon them a sterile and authoritarian educational system which mirrored the ethos of the corporate workplace. ↗

— Anthony M. Platt

#education #politics #education

Learning is important. It is a way to make a life better for yourself and your family. ↗

— Rosie Thomas

#learning #life #education

An adult friend of Lincoln's: "Life was to him a school. ↗

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

#lifelong-learning #education

The French fairy tale writers were so popular and prolific that when their stories were eventually collected in the 18th century, they filled forty–one volumes of a massive publication called the Cabinet des Fées. Charles Perrault is the French fairy tale writer whom history has singled out for attention, but the majority of tales in the Cabinet des Fées were penned by women writers who ran and attended the leading salons: Marie–Catherine d’Aulnoy, Henriette Julie de Murat, Marie–Jeanne L'Héritier, and numerous others. These were educated women with an unusual degree of social and artistic independence, and within their use of the fairy tale form one can find distinctly subversive, even feminist subtext. ↗

— Terri Windling

#fairy-tales-for-adults #feminism #magical-stories #stories #education

You go to school everyday. Folks who think they've learned everything they need to know are usually dumber than chickens. ↗

— Jodi Thomas

#wisdom-quotes #education

I want students to engage the way a clutch on a car gets engaged: an engine can be running, making appropriate noises, burning fuel and creating exhaust fumes, but unless the clutch is engaged, nothing moves. It's all sound and smoke, and nobody gets anywhere. ↗

— Robert L. Fried

#teaching #education

It appeared clear to me - partly because of the lies that filled my history textbooks - that the intent of formal education was to inculcate obedience to a social order that did not deserve my loyalty. Defiance seemed the only dignified response to the adult world. ↗

— Timothy B. Tyson

#edcuation #history #inculcating #lies #loyalty

Lernen und nicht denken ist nichtig, denken und nicht lernen ist ermüdend. ↗

— Confucius

#education

The best thing we could have done for Afghanistan was to get out of our Humvees and drink more green chai. We should have focused less on finding the enemy, and more on finding our friends. ↗

— Craig M. Mullaney

#war #education

[P]hilosophy . . .consists chiefly in suggesting unintelligible answers to insoluble problems. ↗

— Henry Adams

#education