#ducati

They were often the first students in their family to go to college and the very idea of higher education was still foreign to them. They had to make a conscious and often difficult decision to come to college. ↗

— Michael N. Castle

#come #conscious #decision #difficult #education

American education is still the wonder of the world, and we must open the schoolhouse doors, not close them. ↗

— Lincoln Chafee

#close #doors #education #must #open

When I was young I didn't care about education, just money and box office. ↗

— Jackie Chan

#box #box office #care #education #i

There is no one area of chemical engineering that specifically helped me in my career as an astronaut, it was more the general education in engineering. Also, it was a very difficult and rigorous course. So, it made me strong and resourceful. ↗

— Leroy Chiao

#area #astronaut #career #chemical #course

Adults, in their dealing with children, are insane," he [Ed Ricketts] said. "And children know it too. Adults lay down rules they would not think of following, speak truths they do not believe. And yet they expect children to obey the rules, believe the truths, and admire and respect their parents for this nonsense. Children must be very wise and secret to tolerate adults at all. And the greatest nonsense of all that adults expect children to believe is that people learn by experience. No greater lie was ever revered. And its falseness is immediately discerned by children since their parents obviously have not learned anything by experience. Far from learning, adults simply become set in a maze of prejudices and dreams and sets of rules whose origins they do not know and would not dare inspect for fear the whole structure might topple over on them. I think children instinctively know this," Ed said. "Intelligent children learn to conceal their knowledge and keep free of this howling mania. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#children #education #experience #learning #dreams

Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#challenging #education #environment #explore #his

The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#education #internet #meaningful #organisation #participation

The education of peoples is a necessary precondition to peace. ↗

— Carlo Azeglio Ciampi

#necessary #peace #precondition

Health and education are always issues. ↗

— Helen Clark

#education #health #issues

One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child. ↗