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Eragon looked back at him, confused. "I don't understand." "Of course you don't," said Brom impatiently. "That's why I'm teaching you and not the other way around. ↗

— Christopher Paolini

#humor #education

Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#better #designed #education #facts #feel

Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#ignorance #indoctrination #education

Often, it’s not about becoming a new person, but becoming the person you were meant to be, and already are, but don’t know how to be. ↗

— Heath L. Buckmaster

#growth #life #self-acceptance #self-realization #education

Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today. ↗

— Malcolm X

#future #education

In the meantime, I could withdraw to my room, could hide and sleep as if I were dead ↗

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

#memories #suicide #suicide

A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

#goodness #intelligence #kindness #scholarship #education

Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each. ↗

— Plato

#education #mentoring #philosophy #education

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead. ↗

— Aristotle

#education

The whole educational and professional training system is a very elaborate filter, which just weeds out people who are too independent, and who think for themselves, and who don't know how to be submissive, and so on -- because they're dysfunctional to the institutions. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#education-system #instituions #education