#din

When I am king they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved. ↗

— Mark Twain

#education #mind #reading #education

Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#children #expose #extraordinary #gift #heart

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#education #reading #education

I must judge for myself, but how can I judge, how can any man judge, unless his mind has been opened and enlarged by reading. ↗

— John Adams

#education #reading #education

Yeah. Floyd is his batman." His what?" Batman, like in the British army, each officer had a batman, a personal servant." You spend too much time reading, Spenser. You know more stuff that don't make you money than anybody I know. ↗

— Robert B. Parker

#britain #detectives #education #humor #irrelevance

The child intuitively comprehends that although these stories are unreal, they are not untrue ... ↗

— Bruno Bettelheim

#comprehension #education #fiction #learning #nonfiction

The most essential and fundamental aspect of culture is the study of literature, since this is an education in how to picture and understand human situations. ↗

— Iris Murdoch

#education

Nobody can decide for himself whether he is going to be a human being. The only question open to him is whether he will be an ignorant undeveloped one or one who has sought to reach the highest point he is capable of attaining. ↗

— Robert Maynard Hutchins

#education #reading #education

I also talk a lot in Deeper Reading about the importance that confusion plays. When my students come to me, they think confusion is bad. They are wrong. Confusion is the place where learning occurs. ↗

— Kelly Gallagher

#education

My education was neglected, yet I was passionately fond of reading. ↗

— Mary Shelley

#letters #reading #education