#cat

Life is short. Life is uncertain. But we know that we have today. And we have each other. I believe that for each of us, there is a place on the frontlines. ↗

— Eric Greitens

#humanitarianism #mantra #morals #peace #education

I feel very lucky because of my parents and then my education, the opportunities that I've had, so I would like to continue working to improve lives for others. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

#continue #education #feel #had #i

There are two problems for our species' survival - nuclear war and environmental catastrophe - and we're hurtling towards them. Knowingly. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#environmental #knowingly #nuclear #nuclear war #our

Prostitution was illegal in Kenya and was culturally a taboo. But what was a young orphaned girl with little education to do when she had to fend for three of her younger siblings? As she watched the waves hit the shores, she noticed a young handsome man staring at her from a distance. ↗

— Nya Wampaze

#bwwm #interracial-marriage #interracial-romance #education

The government of Israel doesn't like the kinds of things I say, which puts them into the same category as every other government in the world. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#every #government #i #into #israel

Now financial liberalization is just a catastrophe waiting to happen, and there are very well understood reasons for that. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#financial #happen #just #liberalization #now

This teaching job did not pay a lot of money, because, let's face it, nobody gives a flying fuck about education, but it was a temporary position. ↗

— Daniel Handler

#teaching #education

A happy arrangement: many people prefer cats to other people, and many cats prefer people to other cats. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#arrangement #cats #happy #many #other

Anything you think of doing, however insignificant, should be done immediately. Spur yourself on and carry it through without becoming discouraged. If this becomes an ingrained habit, things you thought were impossible will become possible, and closed doors will open, as you will discover in many ways. ↗

— Shinichi Suzuki

#motivational #education

Not long after the book came out I found myself being driven to a meeting by a professor of electrical engineering in the graduate school I of MIT. He said that after reading the book he realized that his graduate students were using on him, and had used for the ten years and more he had been teaching there, all the evasive strategies I described in the book — mumble, guess-and-look, take a wild guess and see what happens, get the teacher to answer his own questions, etc. But as I later realized, these are the games that all humans play when others are sitting in judgment on them. ↗

— John Holt

#education #schooling #education