#cat

I'm not trying to tell you," he said, "that only educated and scholarly men are able to contribute something valuable to the world...[however,] they have more humility than the scholarly thinker. ↗

— J.D. Salinger

#education

Without education … what is man but a splendid slave, a reasoning savage vacillating between the dignity of an intelligence derived from God and the degradation of passion participated with brutes… ↗

— Chukwudifu Oputa

#growth #life-lessons #education

If you are not truthful, your prayer will not be powerful. ↗

— Sri Amma Bhagavan

#god #inspirational #joy #life #self-help

If your education, talent and capacity can do nothing; your body can do lots of things. ↗

— M.F. Moonzajer

#education #meaning-of-life #suicide-attack #talent #education

When it comes to competing with the best and brightest in whatever your talents or educational skills are, you have to have the confidence within yourself that you are able to achieve. ↗

— Ellen J. Barrier

#confidence #education #skills #talent #education

I leave pansies, the symbolic flower of freethought, in memory of the Great Agnostic, Robert Ingersoll, who stood for equality, education, progress, free ideas and free lives, against the superstition and bigotry of religious dogma. We need men like him today more than ever. His writing still inspires us and challenges the 'better angels' of our nature, when people open their hearts and minds to his simple, honest humanity. Thank goodness he was here. ↗

— Bruce Springsteen

#education

I think of it often and imagine the scene clearly. Even if they come to kill me, I will tell them what they are trying to do is wrong, that education is our basic right. ↗

— Malala Yousafzai

#taliban-treatment-of-women #education

If we marry we stay too poor to educate, and when we educate, it would be too late to enjoy the life. ↗

— M.F. Moonzajer

#enjoy #life #marry #poor #education

Thomas Jefferson once said that all men are created equal (...). There is a tendency (...) for certain people to use this phrase out of context, to satisfy all conditions. The most ridiculous example I can think of is that the people who run public education promote the stupid and idle along with the industrious-because all men are created equal, educators will gravely tell you, the children left behind suffer terrible feelings of inferiority. We know all men are not created equal in the sense some people would have us believe-some people are smarter than others, some people have more opportunity because they're born with it, some men make more money than others, some ladies make better cakes than others-some people are born gifted beyond the normal scope of most men. ↗

— Harper Lee

#equality #meritocracy #education

He educated Maurice, or rather his spirit educated Maurice's spirit, for they themselves became equal. Neither thought "Am I led; am I leading?" Love had caught him out of triviality and Maurice out of bewilderment in order that two imperfect souls might touch perfection. ↗

— E.M. Forster

#relationships #education