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I mean that they (students) should not play life, or study it merely, while the community supports them at this expensive game, but earnestly live it from beginning to end. How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living? Methinks this would exercise their minds as much as mathematics. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#education #education

Education is the preparation of a child intellectually, emotionally, spiritually, and physically for life and for eternity. ↗

— Kevin Swanson

#kevin #school #swanson #upgrade #education

Placing the burden on the individual to break down doors in finding better education for a child is attractive to conservatives because it reaffirms their faith in individual ambition and autonomy. But to ask an individual to break down doors that we have chained and bolted in advance of his arrival is unfair. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#race #education

Parents, don’t invest in your child's teaching; invest in your child's learning. ↗

— Steve Ahn

#school #student #teaching #education

To care about words, to have a stake in what is written, to believe in the power of books - this overwhelms the rest, and beside it one's life becomes very small. ↗

— Paul Auster

#reading #words #writing #life

It's a blessing Madame Gamache and I had at our wedding. It was read at the end of the ceremony. Now you will feel no rain For each of you will be shelter for the other Now you will feel no cold For each of you will be warmth for the other Now there is no loneliness for you Now there is no more loneliness. Now you are two persons, but there is one life before you. Go now to your dwelling place To enter into the days of your togetherness. And may your days be good and long upon this earth. (Apache Blessing) ↗

— Louise Penny

#life

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

#life #life

By choosing to live above the ordinary level we create extraordinary problems for ourselves. ↗

— Henry Miller

#life #life

But there is nothing enduring in the world, and therefore even joy in the second minute is already not as acute as in the first; in the third minute it becomes still weaker and finally merges unnoticeably with the usual condition of the soul, as a circle on the water, caused by the fall of a pebble, finally merges with the smooth surface. ↗

— Nikolai Gogol

#joy #life #sadness #time #life

I do believe that some humans have more amazing lives than others–above all, those who don’t sit down in a chair like mere spectators letting their lives happen in front of them, but they take risks as heroes do, experiencing, living, becoming the main character—but no matter what, we all have at least one story to tell. ↗

— Merce Cardus

#life-and-living #risks #storytelling #life