#ducati

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

You cannot change another person's mind or educate them; this they must do themselves. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#influencing-people #personal-knowledge #change

Spend the years of learning squandering Courage for the years of wandering Through a world politely turning From the loutishness of learning. ↗

— Samuel Beckett

#waste #courage

Science is an attempt, largely successful, to understand the world, to get a grip on things, to get hold of ourselves, to steer a safe course. Microbiology and meteorology now explain what only a few centuries ago was considered sufficient cause to burn women to death. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#learning #science #death

A state that does not educate and train women is like a man who only trains his right arm. ↗

— Jostein Gaarder

#equality #women #women-s-rights #education

It is always a much easier task to educate uneducated people than to re-educate the mis-educated. ↗

— Herbert M. Shelton

#ignorance #indoctrination #propaganda #education