#ducati

The nobility of the human spirit grows harder for me to believe in. War, zealotry, greed, malls, narcissism. I see a backhanded nobility in excessive, impractical outlays of cash prompted by nothing loftier than a species joining hands and saying “I bet we can do this.” Yes, the money could be better spent on Earth. But would it? Since when has money saved by government red-lining been spent on education and cancer research? It is always squandered. Let’s squander some on Mars. Let’s go out and play. ↗

— Mary Roach

#education

The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think - rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with the thoughts of other men. ↗

— James Beattie

#homeschool #homeschooling #learning #education

He who wishes to serve his country must have not only the power to think, but the will to act ↗

— Plato

#education #inspiration #international-relations #kurt-hahn #service

Unless education promotes character making, unless it helps men to be more moral, more just to their fellows, more law abiding, more discriminatingly patriotic and public spirited, it is not worth the trouble taken to furnish it. ↗

— William Howard Taft

#homeschool #homeschooling #learning #education

My mother always told me that there is only one way a woman can be truly safe in this world. And that is to be fiercely, inarguably, and masterfully talented. This is different than being intelligent or even educated. (Satomi from Picking Bones From Ash) ↗

— Marie Mutsuki Mockett

#woman #education

If you wish to make anything grow, you must understand it, and understand it in a very real sense. 'Green fingers' are a fact, and a mystery only to the unpracticed. But green fingers are the extensions of a verdant heart. ↗

— Russell Page

#green-thumb #growth #understanding #verdant #education

Guru yang baik bagaikan petani. Mereka menyiapkan bahan dan lahan belajar di kelas, memelihara bibit penerus bangsa, menyirami mereka dengan ilmu, dan memupuk jiwa mereka dengan karakter yang luhur. Guru yang ikhlas adalah petani yang mencetak peradaban. ↗

— A. Fuadi

#inspirational #motivational #education

Anthropocentric as [the gardener] may be, he recognizes that he is dependent for his health and survival on many other forms of life, so he is careful to take their interests into account in whatever he does. He is in fact a wilderness advocate of a certain kind. It is when he respects and nurtures the wilderness of his soil and his plants that his garden seems to flourish most. Wildness, he has found, resides not only out there, but right here: in his soil, in his plants, even in himself... But wildness is more a quality than a place, and though humans can't manufacture it, they can nourish and husband it... The gardener cultivates wildness, but he does so carefully and respectfully, in full recognition of its mystery. ↗

— Michael Pollan

#gardening #life #nature #nurture #wild

The green thumb is equable in the face of nature's uncertainties; he moves among her mysteries without feeling the need for control or explanations or once-and-for-all solutions. To garden well is to be happy amid the babble of the objective world, untroubled by its refusal to be reduced by our ideas of it, its indomitable rankness. ↗

— Michael Pollan

#green-thumb #happiness #nature #education

He (Larry Summers) can frame arguments with such force and conviction that people think he knows more than he does. ↗

— Ron Suskind

#impressions #rhetoric #education