#ducati

Charging commercial institutions with failure to educate public taste is an indulgence from which intellectuals will only be deterred when they grasp that a non-existant contract can be neither breached nor enforced. If commerce is to be indicted for anything, it can only be for commercialism, and whether that is a crime or not is a political question. ↗

— Colin Watson

#impoverished-thought #education

All situations in which the interrelationships between extremes are involved are the most interesting and instructive. ↗

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

#extremes #education

Every person is bound to make many mistakes; but he will make far fewer when his ability to judge has been properly trained. ↗

— Frank Morton McMurry

#education

An American is insubmissive, lonely, self-educated, and polite. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

#education

…but because they felt the neighborhood was safer than the one around Columbia, the medical campus of which was so far north that it was practically an annex of the Bronx ↗

— Michelle Au

#nyc #education

Something's going on in Cordell's room, but I'm not sure I want to know what it is. ↗

— Esmé Raji Codell

#education

Trying to get more learning out of the present system is like trying to get the Pony Express to compete with the telegraph by breeding faster ponies. ↗

— Edward Fiske

#homeschool #homeschooling #education

Library stacks from this perspective are not a repository; they are a crowd. ↗

— Kenneth A. Bruffee

#education

It facilitates labor and thought so much that there is always the temptation in large schools to omit the endless task of meeting the wants of each single mind, and to govern by steam. But it is at frightful cost. Our modes of Education aim to expedite, to save labor; to do for masses what cannot be done for masses, what must be done reverently, one by one: say rather, the whole world is needed for the tuition of each pupil. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#school #education

I confess myself utterly at a loss in suggesting particular reforms in our ways of teaching. No discretion that can be lodged with a school-committee, with the overseers or visitors of an academy, of a college, can at all avail to reach these difficulties and perplexities, but they solve themselves when we leave institutions and address individuals. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#reform #school #education