#ducati

Throwing herself into learning helped Miri ignore the painful chill of solitude around her. ↗

— Shannon Hale

#learning #loneliness #school #education

The greatest mistake of the movement has been trying to organize a sleeping people around specific goals. You have to wake the people up first, then you'll get action. ↗

— Malcolm X

#awareness #change #education #knowledge #revolution

...I doubt very seriously whether anyone will hire me.' What do you mean, babe? You a fine boy with a good education.' Employers sense in me a denial of their values.' He rolled over onto his back. 'They fear me. I suspect that they can see that I am forced to function in a century I loathe. This was true even when I worked for the New Orleans Public Library. ↗

— John Kennedy Toole

#humor #humour #work #education

All of life is a constant education. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#education

Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace. ↗

— Confucius

#education

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

My definition of good literature is that which can be read by an educated reader, and reread with increased pleasure. ↗

— Gene Wolfe

#education

I suppose it is because nearly all children go to school nowadays and have things arranged for them that they seem so forlornly unable to produce their own ideas. ↗

— Agatha Christie

#homeschool #homeschooling #learning #education

Common sense is in spite of, not the result of, education. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#education #education

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#because #been #company #educated #i