#ducati

Der Lehrer [...] gibt nicht von seiner Weisheit, sondern eher von seinem Glauben und seiner Liebe. ↗

— Kahlil Gibran

#knowledge #love #education

I believe you need to be educated on what you want to do in life, but I don't believe you necessarily need collage to get there. ↗

— Will Smith actor

#will-smith #education

Aunt Anne's lips quirked up in a smile. "Life is not a neat equation to be solved," she said. "It's messy and wild and unpredictable. That's the heartbreak of it, but that's also the glory of it. ↗

— Heather Vogel Frederick

#education

...But Aunt Anne has encouraged me to continue. In many regards, life itself is a voyage, she says. We never know where its winds and currents will carry us, she says, or what adventures lie ahead, and surely it's worth keeping record of this journey as well. ↗

— Heather Vogel Frederick

#education

Much of what we call History is the success stories of madmen. ↗

— John Holt

#history #education

Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't. ↗

— Pete Seeger

#experience #fine #fine print #get #print

Any black person who clings to the misguided notion that white people represent the embodiment of all that is evil and black people all that is good remains wedded to the very logic of Western metaphysical dualism that is the heart of racist binary thinking. Such thinking is not liberatory. Like the racist educational ideology it mirrors and imitates, it invites a closing of the mind. ↗

— Bell Hooks

#education

He never labored so hard to learn a language as he did to hold his tongue, and it affected him for life. The habit of reticence — of talking without meaning — is never effaced. ↗

— Henry Adams

#speech #education

The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man which it forms. If it injures the intelligence, it is bad; if it injures the character, it is vicious; if it injures the conscience, it is criminal. ↗

— Amiel

#homeschool #homeschooling #learning #education

And the more he was irritated by her basic personality, the more he was drawn to her by a harsh, bestial sensuality, illusions of a moment, which ended in hate. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#love #education