#ducati

It was a bland, tranquilized, life-adjusted, group-integrated sort of face -- the face turned out in thousands of copies every year by the educational production lines on Terra. ↗

— H. Beam Piper

#education #educational-system #faces #education

His education had been neither scientific nor classical—merely “Modern.” The severities both of abstraction and of high human tradition had passed him by: and he had neither peasant shrewdness nor aristocratic honour to help him. He was a man of straw, a glib examinee in subjects that require no exact knowledge (he had always done well on Essays and General Papers) and the first hint of a real threat to his bodily life knocked him sprawling. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#modernity #education

I probably felt more resentment for what I personally was to suffer than for the wrong they were doing to anyone and everyone. But at that time I was determined not to put up with badly behaved people more out of my own interest than because I wanted them to become good people. ↗

— Augustine of Hippo

#education #leadership #servanthood #teaching #education

The habit of looking at life as a social relation — an affair of society — did no good. It cultivated a weakness which needed no cultivation. If it had helped to make men of the world, or give the manners and instincts of any profession — such as temper, patience, courtesy, or a faculty of profiting by the social defects of opponents — it would have been education better worth having than mathematics or languages; but so far as it helped to make anything, it helped only to make the college standard permanent through life. ↗

— Henry Adams

#education #education

Ben Says: To all of the children of today...Work hard & study well. You can be me...because I was once you! Education will always get you far! ↗

— Timothy Pina

#inspirational #education

A teacher will be frustrated if she is only motivated to teach what she has learned. Yet, if she is motivated because of the students, then she will learn from them how to teach. ↗

— Tanya R. Liverman

#educational-system #inspiration #poetry #education

[On technology:] A realm of intimate, personal power is developing -- power of the individual to conduct his own education, find his own inspiration, shape his own environment, and share his adventure with whoever is interested. ↗

— Stewart Brand

#education

Formal education makes you a living, self-education makes you a legend. ↗

— Habeeb Akande

#formal-education #inspirational #self-education #education

We are really so prejudiced by our educations, that, as the ancients deified their heroes, we deify their madmen. ↗

— Philip Dormer Stanhope

#inspirational #prejudice #education

Teach him to live rather than to avoid death: life is not breath, but action, the use of our senses, our mind, our faculties, every part of ourselves which makes us conscious of our being. Life consists less in length of days than in the keen sense of living. A man maybe buried at a hundred and may never have lived at all. He would have fared better had he died young. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#emile #death