#ducati

A child's education should begin at least 100 years before he was born. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

#education

And then there is the most dangerous risk of all -- the risk of spending your life not doing what you want on the bet you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later. ↗

— Randy Komisar

#life-philosophy #priorities #working #education

Unity is vision; it must have been part of the process of learning to see. ↗

— Henry Adams

#perception #senses #sight #unity #vision

The sort of twee person who thinks swearing is in any way a sign of a lack of education or a lack of verbal interest is just a fucking lunatic. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#education

Don’t tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you have travelled. ↗

— Anonymous

#god-s-creation #traveling #education

To reap a return in ten years, plant trees. To reap a return in 100, cultivate the people. ↗

— Hồ Chí Minh

#growth #investment #progress #society #education

What is most important and valuable about the home as a base for children's growth into the world is not that it is a better school than the schools, but that it isn't a school at all. ↗

— John Holt

#homeschool #homeschooling #education

Great poetry needs no interpreter other than a responsive heart. ↗

— Helen Keller

#poetry #education

It is my belief...that the talents every child has, regardless of his official 'I.Q,' could stay with him through life, to enrich him and everybody else, if these talents were not regarded as commodities with a value in the success-stakes. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#education

If I had to make a general rule for living and working with children, it might be this: be wary of saying or doing anything to a child that you would not do to another adult, whose good opinion and affection you valued. ↗

— John Holt

#parenting #education