#ducati

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

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

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

Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#books #education #enlightenment #light #literacy

There will be no mass-based feminist movement as long as feminist ideas are understood only by a well-educated few. ↗

— Bell Hooks

#education #feminism #education

Families are designed to nurture the minds, wills, and emotions of its members so that the barriers created by fear of the unknown can be replaced by the confidence that comes from knowing you are loved whether you succeed or fail. ↗

— Leigh A. Bortins

#family #design

If you actually are an educated, thinking person, you will not be welcome in Washington, D.C. I know a couple of bright seventh graders who would not be welcome in Washington D.C. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#politics #education

Was not Hypatia the greatest philosopher of Alexandria, and a true martyr to the old values of learning? She was torn to pieces by a mob of incensed Christians not because she was a woman, but because her learning was so profound, her skills at dialectic so extensive that she reduced all who queried her to embarrassed silence. They could not argue with her, so they murdered her. ↗

— Iain Pears

#dialectics #education #greatness #hypatia-of-alexandria #knowledge