#ducati

It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind. ↗

— James Baldwin

#freedom-of-thought #education

Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as hard duty. Never regard study as duty but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#beauty

Were we to confront our creaturehood squarely, how would we propose to educate? The answer, I think is implied in the root of the word education, educe, which means "to draw out." What needs to be drawn out is our affinity for life. That affinity needs opportunities to grow and flourish, it needs to be validated, it needs to be instructed and disciplined, and it needs to be harnessed to the goal of building humane and sustainable societies. Education that builds on our affinity for life would lead to a kind of awakening of possibilities and potentials that lie dormant and unused in the industrial-utilitarian mind. Therefore the task of education, as Dave Forman stated, is to help us 'open our souls to love this glorious, luxuriant, animated, planet.' The good news is that our own nature will help us in the process if we let it. ↗

— David Orr

#education #environment #human-nature #nature #beauty

I was taught that I had to 'master' subjects. But who can 'master' beauty, or peace, or joy? ↗

— Kathleen Norris

#ineffable #beauty

A man is a man in every part of the world. It has nothing to do with race. It has to do with the culture and education that each man has received since he was a child, in his home. It has to do with how he was raised. ↗

— Alicia Machado

#culture #each #education #every #his

To have a viable civilization, people have to have a benign government, a semblance of education, spare time, imagination, and manners ↗

— Jonathan Chamberlain Williams

#education

The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done. ↗

— Jean Piaget

#creating #doing #done #education #generations

Nothing can teach you what it's like to work on a film set, and the best education there can be for an actor is to walk up the street and observe human nature. ↗

— Rosamund Pike

#best #education #film #film set #human

A good education is another name for happiness. ↗

— Ann Plato

#education #good #good education #happiness #name

A man, whilst he is dreaming, believes in his dream; he is undeceived only when he is awakened from his slumber. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#inspirational #dreams