#cat

Learning is not cumpulsory... neither is survival. ↗

— W. Edwards Deming

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Let the human mind loose. It must be loose. It will be loose. Superstition and dogmatism cannot confine it. ↗

— John Adams

#freedom-of-thought #scientific-inquiry #education

I became educated to the fact that the greatest pain does not come zooming down from a distant planet, but from the depths of the heart. Of course, both could happen; your wife and child could leave you, and you could be sitting alone in your empty house with nothing to live for, and in addition the Martians could bore through the roof and get you. ↗

— Philip K. Dick

#education

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

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

— Claude Bernard

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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