#ducati

Things somehow seem more real and vivid when one can apply somebody else's ready-made phrase about them (...) you bring them out triumphantly, and feel you've clinched the argument with the mere magical sound of them. That's what comes of the higher education. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#quotes #education

So you see, you have nothing to be afraid of." Oh no, thought Otto, just squads of hired goons wandering around with experimental energy weapons. Nothing to be afraid of at all. ↗

— Mark Walden

#contessa #humor #otto #weapons #education

I hope you don't snore," Otto said, laughing. "Like a chainsaw, my friend, like a chainsaw," Wing replied, grinning. ↗

— Mark Walden

#otto #snore #wing #education

Our life stories are largely constructed and without mindfulness can prove destructive. ↗

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

#behaviour #belief-systems #child-development #conditioning #education-system

Too often, it seems to me, in missionary and educational work among underdeveloped races, people yield to the temptation of doing that which was done a hundred years before, or is being done in other communities a thousand miles away. The temptation often is to run each individual through a certain educational mould, regardless of the condition of the subject or the end to be accomplished. ↗

— Booker T. Washington

#education

Everyone drank to popular education and to the irrigation of Uzbekistan. ↗

— Ilya Ilf

#education

Sometimes a little song is sweet to hear, even if the orchestra is more accomplished ↗

— Esmé Raji Codell

#education

Odd how we focus on studying wars at at school to form our 'education'. No wonder we know so little about making and forging peace as adults. ↗

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

#learning #peace #peacemaking #rasheed-ogunlaru-quote #studying

If you know where you are going, you are not learning. (p. 16) ↗

— Mike Higton

#education

educational television had a dramatic effect on relational aggression. The more the kids watched, the crueler they’d be to their classmates. This correlation was 2.5 times higher than the correlation between violent media and physical aggression. ↗

— Po Bronson

#education