#ducati

A mind is like an umbrella - only useful when open. ↗

— A work colleague

#philosophical #work #education

To talk to each other is but a more animated and an audible thinking. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#inspirational #education

On ne naît pas femme: on le devient. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

#birth #education #gender #gender-realization #upbringing

If the goal of conservatives is to discourage young people from having sex, they should change their strategy and push to make comprehensive sexual education compulsory. Our educational system has proved that if a subject is taught in a boring enough manner, Americans will make every effort to avoid it for the rest of their lives. If homosexuality was taught in the same manner as trigonometry, even most gay people would have no use for it after graduation. ↗

— Bob Smith

#humor #sex-education #trigonometry #change

Professional learning does not advance… through the inexorable confirmation of previous certainties, but through a systematic challenge to our present conceptions ↗

— Douglass B. Reeves

#education #improvement #professional-development #reform #change

My very small part in WATCHMEN is that, every now and then, Alan would phone me: ''Neil, you're an educated man. Where does it say...'' He would need a quote from the Bible, or an essay about owls. I was his occasional research assistant. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#education

There is no wealth like knowledge, no poverty like ignorance ↗

— Ali Bin Abi Thalib

#inspirational #education

Master Graves was incensed and said, as punishment for my disruption, I would have to write my letters an extra ten times that day. "Ten times the better I'll know them, then." I said. "How strange that you should punish me by ensuring I come out more educated than Roden, who has tried to obey you. ↗

— Jennifer A. Nielsen

#education

The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any. ↗

— Hannah Arendt

#education

Teenagers read millions of books every year. They read for entertainment and for education. They read because of school assignments and pop culture fads. And there are millions of teens who read because they are sad and lonely and enraged. They read because they live in an often-terrible world. They read because they believe despite the callow protestations of certain adults that books-especially the dark and dangerous ones-will save them. ↗

— Sherman Alexie

#salvation #teens #education