#ducati

We are in the process of disabling our most distinctive achievement - our educational system - in the name of making the country more like itself. ↗

— Marilynne Robinson

#education

I don’t think people realise how vital libraries are or what a colossal danger it would be if we were to lose any more. Having had a truncated school life myself, all of my education from the age of 17 has been self-taught. I wouldn’t be the person I am today if it wasn’t for the opportunities the library gave me. ↗

— Alan Moore

#information #learning #libraries #save-libraries #self-taught

Let failure be your workshop. See it for what is is: the world walking you through a tough but necessary semester, free of tuition. (from Workbook) ↗

— Steven Heighton

#education #failure #education

Toată lumea se așteaptă ca educația să fie un drept fundamental și nu pun mare preț pe ea când o primesc! ↗

— Agatha Christie

#expectations #inspirational #price #world #education

The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning. ↗

— John Dewey

#learning #philosophy #teaching #attitude

I have always had the greatest respect for students. There is nothing I hate more than condescension—the attitude that they are inferior to you. I always assume they have good minds. ↗

— Mark Van Doren

#students #teaching #attitude

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

— Kathleen Norris

#ineffable #beauty

A child who passes through many hands in turn, can never be well brought up. At every change he makes a secret comparison, which continually tends to lessen his respect for those who control him, and with it their authority over him. If once he thinks there are grown-up people with no more sense than children the authority of age is destroyed and his education is ruined. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#education #age

Education may not make a change of your life. It makes you ponder over at least. ↗

— Kazeronnie Mak

#education #inspirational #knowledge #life #spiritual

It is the modern literature of the educated, not of the uneducated, which is avowedly and aggressively criminal..The vast mass of humanity, with their vast mass of idle books and idle words, have never doubted and never will doubt that courage is splendid, that fidelity is noble, that distressed ladies should be rescued, and vanquished enemies spared. There are a large number of cultivated persons who doubt these maxims of daily life. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#literature #courage