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And so, there in the penitentiary, Juan's education began. He didn't want to be a puto weakling, so he worked hard at learning to read. His earthly body was locked up, but his mind was set free as a young eagle soaring through the heavens. ↗

— Victor Villaseñor

#freedom #inspirational #reading #reading-motivation #education

Love this quote from a teacher about their class "This is four walls around the future! ↗

— - Anonymous teacher

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Both class and race survive education, and neither should. What is education then? If it doesn't help a human being to recognize that humanity is humanity, what is it for? So you can make a bigger salary than other people? ↗

— Beah Richards

#bigger #both #class #education #help

...my object is to show that the chief function of the child--his business in the world during the first six or seven years of his life--is to find out all he can, about whatever comes under his notice, by means of his five senses... ↗

— Charlotte M. Mason

#education #preschool #business

This classmate told me that Plato drove this idea home in his dialogue Euthydemus, in which Socrates puts down the Sophists, claiming that a man learns more by "playing" with ideas in his leisure time that by sitting in a classroom. And Plato's successor, that world champion of pleasure, Epicurus, believed in a simple yet elegant connection between learning and happiness: the entire purpose of education was to attune the mind and sense to the pleasures of life. ↗

— Daniel Klein

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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

It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom. Without this it goes to wrack and ruin without fail. ↗

— Albert Einstein

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