#ducati

What I learned on my own I still remember ↗

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#discovery #education #intelligence #learning #reading

Shifting the frame only slightly, the choice of a theory from among the range of always ideologically founded theories is itself necessarily ideologically motivated. Positioning is unavoidable; positioning is the result of choice from among a range of possibilities; that choice is socially meaningful - it is ideological. ↗

— Gunther Kress

#media-studies #social-semiotics #theoritical-frameworks #communication

Going to school is not the same as going shopping. Parents should not be burdened with locating a suitable school for their child. They should be able to take their child to the neighborhood public school as a matter of course and expect that it has well-educated teachers and a sound educational program. ↗

— Diane Ravitch

#schools #death

There is no 'eugenics' in Nietzsche - despite occasional references to 'breeding'- at least no more than is implicit in the recommendation to choose a partner under decent lightning conditions and with one's self-respect intact. Everything else falls under training, discipline, education and self-design - the Übermensch implies not a biological but an artistic, not to say an acrobatic programme. The only thought-provoking aspect of the marriage recommendation quoted above is the difference between onward and upward propagation. This coincides with a critique of mere repetition - obviously it will no longer suffice in future for children, as one says, to 'return' in their children. There may be a right to imperfection, but not to triviality. ↗

— Peter Sloterdijk

#education #marriage #self-design #training #design

[Homeschooling]...recipe for genius: More of family and less of school, more of parents and less of peers, more creative freedom and less formal lessons. ↗

— Raymond S. Moore

#family #genius #homeschool #public-education #education

A little known area often defines the fortunes of leaders -- management skills. ↗

— Ron Suskind

#management-and-leadership #education

Segregation shaped me; education liberated me. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#inspirational #learning #race #education

Children deprived of words become school dropouts; dropouts deprived of hope behave delinquently. Amateur censors blame delinquency on reading immoral books and magazines, when in fact, the inability to read anything is the basic trouble. ↗

— Peter S. Jennison

#censorship #education #illiteracy #reading #education

Philosophy is the toil which can never tire persons engaged in it. All ways are strewn with roses, and the farther you go, the more enchanting objects appear before you and invite you on. ↗

— Mary Wortley Montagu

#feminism #learning #philosophy #education

From innumerable complexities we must grow to simplicity; we must become simple in our inward life and in our outward needs. ↗

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

#simplicity-in-life #education