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If you can control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his action. When you determine what a man shall think you do not have to concern yourself about what he will do. If you make a man feel that he is inferior, you do not have to compel him to accept an inferior status, for he will seek it himself. If you make a man think that he is justly an outcast, you do not have to order him to the back door. He will go without being told; and if there is no back door, his very nature will demand one. ↗

— Carter G. Woodson

#education

It's what we think we know that keeps us from learning. ↗

— Claude Bernard

#education

Our care of the child should be governed, not by the desire to make him learn things, but by the endeavor always to keep burning within him that light which is called intelligence. ↗

— Maria Montessori

#spirit #education

Education is the process of selling someone on books. ↗

— Douglas Wilson

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The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life ↗

— Plato

#future #life #plato #education

Yeah, I got the instructions straight from Seoras. That and a bunch of smart-ass comments about my education being sadly lacking and something about not knowing my arse from my ear or my elbow, and also something about me being a fanny, and I don't know what the hell that means." "Fanny? Like a girl's name?" "I don't think so . . . ↗

— P.C. Cast

#house-of-night #stark #zoey-redbird #education

School prepares you for the real world... which also bites. ↗

— Jim Benton

#pessimism #school #education

That is the one eternal education: to be sure enough that something is true that you dare to tell it to a child. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

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Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed. ↗

— Joseph Stalin

#education

I must judge for myself, but how can I judge, how can any man judge, unless his mind has been opened and enlarged by reading. ↗