#ducati

The important thing about adventures, thought Mr. Bunnsy, was that they shouldn't be so long as to make you miss mealtimes. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#teatime #education

A mind is like an umbrella - only useful when open. ↗

— A work colleague

#philosophical #work #education

To talk to each other is but a more animated and an audible thinking. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#inspirational #education

On ne naît pas femme: on le devient. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

#birth #education #gender #gender-realization #upbringing

If the goal of conservatives is to discourage young people from having sex, they should change their strategy and push to make comprehensive sexual education compulsory. Our educational system has proved that if a subject is taught in a boring enough manner, Americans will make every effort to avoid it for the rest of their lives. If homosexuality was taught in the same manner as trigonometry, even most gay people would have no use for it after graduation. ↗

— Bob Smith

#humor #sex-education #trigonometry #change

The shape of my life is, of course, determined by many things; my background and childhood, my mind and its education, my conscience and its pressures, my heart and its desires. ↗

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#heart #life #education

I don't know what to do, and if I did know what to do I wouldn't tell you, because if I had to tell you today then I'd have to tell you tomorrow, and when I'm gone you'd have to get somebody else to tell you. ↗

— Myles Horton

#empowerment #learning #the-answer #change

The home is the first and most effective place to learn the lessons of life: truth, honor, virtue, self control, the value of education, honest work, and the purpose and privilege of life. Nothing can take the place of home in rearing and teaching children, and no other success can compensate for failure in the home. ↗

— David O. McKay

#homeschool #homeschooling #learning #education

Dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education; dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also be able to dance with the pen? ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#inspirational #education

Professional learning does not advance… through the inexorable confirmation of previous certainties, but through a systematic challenge to our present conceptions ↗

— Douglass B. Reeves

#education #improvement #professional-development #reform #change