#ducati

Of all the purposes of education, I think the most useful is this: It prepares you to keep yourself entertained. It gives you a better chance of an interesting job. ↗

— Roger Ebert

#education

Education does not take place when you learn something you did not know before. Education is your ability to use what you have learned to be better today than you were yesterday. ↗

— Iyanla Vanzant

#growth #improvement #education

Children don't need learning. They need access to what they want to learn outside the home. ↗

— Daniel Quinn

#education

The key to the trap is, of course, education. The feminine mystique has made higher education for women seem suspect, unnecessary and even dangerous. But I think that education, and only education, has saved, and can continue to save, American women from the greater dangers of the feminine mystique. ↗

— Betty Friedan

#feminism #education

The best teachers become the best teachers by being their own best students. ↗

— Laurie Gray

#students #teachers #education

I also did some jail time a few years ago. Spent a whole summer in jail reading books. I pumped a ton of new knowledge and new thinking into myself. ↗

— Tommy Lee

#education #jail #motley-crue #reading #tommy-lee

Children, even when very young, have the capacity for inventive thought and decisive action. They have worthwhile ideas. They make perceptive connections. They’re individuals from the start: a unique bundle of interests, talents, and preferences. They have something to contribute. They want to be a part of things. It’s up to us to give them the opportunity to express their creativity, explore widely, and connect with their own meaningful work. ↗

— Lori McWilliam Pickert

#homeschool #homeschooling #learning #learning-process #project-based-homeschooling

Teachers shouldn't make the mistake of always thinking they're the smartest person in the room ↗

— Taylor Mali

#teachers #education

I've managed to bring the backlog down to a mere sixty-eight years," she announced with some small sense of achievement. "I hope to be able to start marking the papers of pupils who are still alive by the end of the decade. ↗

— Jasper Fforde

#grades #grading #teachers #teaching #education

I'm just ordinary guy, ordinary family, ordinary education, ordinary face, ordinary exam results, ordinary thought in my head ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#education