#ducati

Nicholas Benedict did have an exceptional gift for knowing things (more exceptional, in fact, than most adults would have thought possible), and yet not even he could know that this next chapter was to be the most unusual-and most important-of his entire childhood. Indeed, the strange days that lay ahead would change him forever, though for now they had less substance than the mist through which he ran. ↗

— Trenton Lee Stewart

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All, all, becomes profitable. Education is of the most satisfying and available nature. I am at Smith! Which two years ago was a doubtful dream - and that fortuitous change of dream to reality has led me to desire more, and to lash myself onward - onward. ↗

— Sylvia Plath

#education #change

Children learn eagerly and well when they have need of the knowledge. ↗

— Caroline Pratt

#education #progressive-education #education

If Education was a guild, I would still be an apprentice. ↗

— Kambiz Mostofizadeh

#kambiz-mostofi #kambiz-mostofizadeh #mostofizadeh #education

Yes, I know, because schools are cruel, illogical, and unfair. But the thing is, life is cruel, illogical, and unfair. That is why the education system works so well. If schools and teachers did a good job and inspired children and made them enthusiastic about every subject, they would only be sadly disappointed when they got out into the real world. Better to disappoint them when they're young. It is more important to learn to cope with disappointment than learn how to do long division." - Nanny Piggins ↗

— R.A. Spratt

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The teacher that I was for decades, and that I still am in a certain way, wondered what was meant by the word education. I was truly dumbfounded at the very thought of dealing with such an essential and extensive subject. ↗

— Abdoulaye Wade

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So I was shampooing at 14. But I've always thought that had I the opportunity for an education, I would have been an architect. There's no question about it. ↗

— Vidal Sassoon

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The most important thing we can do is inspire young minds and to advance the kind of science, math and technology education that will help youngsters take us to the next phase of space travel. ↗

— John Glenn

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People should be free to find or make for themselves the kinds of educational experience they want their children to have. ↗

— John Holt

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He who opens a school door, closes a prison. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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