#cat

Research experts want to know what can be done about the values of poor segregated children; and this is a question that needs asking. But they do not ask what can be done about the values of the people who have segregated these communities. There is no academic study of the pathological detachment of the very rich... ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#poverty-wealth #school-reform #segregation #education

The tourist was the great conservative who hated novelty and adored dirt. ↗

— Henry Adams

#travel #education

In 1971, after seven years in college, with that magic piece of paper clutched triumphantly in my fist, the best job I was able to get was night watchman on a sewer project in Babylon, N.Y. guarding a hole in the ground to prevent anyone from stealing it. God bless the American educational system! ↗

— Spider Robinson

#education #education

The purpose of education is to save young people from the paralyzing effects of wealth and poverty. (more or less verbatim quote) ↗

— Kurt Hahn

#education

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