#ducati

Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#knowledge-wisdom #learning #school #science #wisdom

I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion by education. This is the true corrective of abuses of Constitutional power. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#education #government #liberty #politics #education

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. ↗

— Derek Bok

#expensive #ignorance #think #try #you

What a school thinks about its library is a measure of what it feels about education. ↗

— Harold Howe

#libraries #library #school #education

Education is a system of imposed ignorance. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#homeschooling #ignorance #public-education #education

You'll never know everything about anything, especially something you love. ↗

— Julia Child

#lifelong-learning #love #education

Education is teaching our children to desire the right things. ↗

— Plato

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I'VE LEARNED THAT YOU CAN'T CONTROL WHAT OTHER PEOPLE ARE GOING TO THINK ABOUT YOU. THE BEST YOU CAN DO IN LIFE IS NOT PISS YOURSELF OFF. ↗

— Megan McCafferty

#wisdom #education

Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world's work, and the power to appreciate life. ↗

— Brigham Young

#learning #education

Every empire, however, tells itself and the world that it is unlike all other empires, that its mission is not to plunder and control but to educate and liberate." (Los Angeles Times, July 20, 2003) ↗

— Edward W. Said

#education