#ducati

Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#education #sangamo-county #education

Night clubs are where Americans learn the laws of motion. ↗

— Bauvard

#funny #humor #science #education

Everyone should read, we say, but we act as if only those with special talent should write. ↗

— Roy Peter Clark

#reading #writing #education

If we can't think for ourselves, if we're unwilling to question authority, then we're just putty in the hands of those in power. But if the citizens are educated and form their own opinions, then those in power work for us. In every country, we should be teaching our children the scientific method and the reasons for a Bill of Rights. With it comes a certain decency, humility and community spirit. In the demon-haunted world that we inhabit by virtue of being human, this may be all that stands between us and the enveloping darkness. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#education #humanity #rights #science #skepticism

Every mountain top is within reach if you just keep climbing. ↗

— Barry Finlay

#africa #clean-water #climbing #education #inspirational

Is it too much to expect from the schools that they train their students not only to interpret but to criticize; that is, to discriminate what is sound from error and falsehood, to suspend judgement if they are not convinced, or to judge with reason if they agree or disagree? ↗

— Mortimer J. Adler

#sound-judgement #truth #education

An educator should consider that he has failed in his job if he has not succeeded in instilling some trace of a divine dissatisfaction with our miserable social environment. ↗

— Anthony Standen

#awareness #conciousness #conscience #education #social-conscience

Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say only the cat died nobly. ↗

— Arnold Edinborough

#education

Thought breeds thought; children familiar with great thoughts take as naturally to thinking for themselves as the well-nourished body takes to growing; and we must bear in mind that growth, physical, intellectual, moral, spiritual, is the sole end of education. ↗

— Charlotte M. Mason

#education #growth #thought #education

Everywhere I go, I am asked if I think university stifles writers. My opinion is that it doesn't stifle enough of them. ↗

— Flannery O'Connor

#humour #literary-criticism #writing #education