#ducati

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

As you can see, there are quite a number of things taught in school that one has to unlearn or at least correct. ↗

— Ambeth R. Ocampo

#learning #philippine-history #philippines #rizal #school

I want my children to understand the world, but not just because the world is fascinating and the human mind is curious. I want them to understand it so that they will be positioned to make it a better place ↗

— Howard Gardner

#education #intelligence #education

In terms of formal education, I may somewhat lacking. I never finished school. I am a self-taught entrepreneur, that's the best kind there is, trust me ↗

— Aravind Adiga

#self-taught #education