#ducati

Families are designed to nurture the minds, wills, and emotions of its members so that the barriers created by fear of the unknown can be replaced by the confidence that comes from knowing you are loved whether you succeed or fail. ↗

— Leigh A. Bortins

#family #design

If you actually are an educated, thinking person, you will not be welcome in Washington, D.C. I know a couple of bright seventh graders who would not be welcome in Washington D.C. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#politics #education

There is no 'eugenics' in Nietzsche - despite occasional references to 'breeding'- at least no more than is implicit in the recommendation to choose a partner under decent lightning conditions and with one's self-respect intact. Everything else falls under training, discipline, education and self-design - the Übermensch implies not a biological but an artistic, not to say an acrobatic programme. The only thought-provoking aspect of the marriage recommendation quoted above is the difference between onward and upward propagation. This coincides with a critique of mere repetition - obviously it will no longer suffice in future for children, as one says, to 'return' in their children. There may be a right to imperfection, but not to triviality. ↗

— Peter Sloterdijk

#education #marriage #self-design #training #design

[Homeschooling]...recipe for genius: More of family and less of school, more of parents and less of peers, more creative freedom and less formal lessons. ↗

— Raymond S. Moore

#family #genius #homeschool #public-education #education

A little known area often defines the fortunes of leaders -- management skills. ↗

— Ron Suskind

#management-and-leadership #education

Segregation shaped me; education liberated me. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#inspirational #learning #race #education

There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#education

Children deprived of words become school dropouts; dropouts deprived of hope behave delinquently. Amateur censors blame delinquency on reading immoral books and magazines, when in fact, the inability to read anything is the basic trouble. ↗

— Peter S. Jennison

#censorship #education #illiteracy #reading #education

Philosophy is the toil which can never tire persons engaged in it. All ways are strewn with roses, and the farther you go, the more enchanting objects appear before you and invite you on. ↗

— Mary Wortley Montagu

#feminism #learning #philosophy #education

I, too, do not want our children to leave us, Zeba, but it is not our decision to make. We are here only to facilitate their dreams. ↗

— Samina Ali

#dreams