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Nature is a hanging judge," goes an old saying. Many tragedies come from our physical and cognitive makeup. Our bodies are extraordinarily improbable arrangements of matter, with many ways for things to go wrong and only a few ways for things to go right. We are certain to die, and smart enough to know it. Our minds are adapted to a world that no longer exists, prone to misunderstandings correctable only by arduous education, and condemned to perplexity about the deepest questions we can ascertain. ↗

— Steven Pinker

#psychology #education

I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good. ↗

— Martin Luther King Jr.

#education #evil #good #humane #morality

All students enter law school with a certain amount of idealism and desire to serve the public, but after three years of brutal competition we care for nothing but the right job with the right firm where we can make partner in seven years and earn big bucks. ↗

— John Grisham

#education

One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect on me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#education #learning #teaching #education

Teaching is a calling too. And I've always thought that teachers in their way are holy - angels leading their flocks out of the darkness. ↗

— Jeannette Walls

#teachers #education

The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows. ↗

— Sydney J. Harris

#into #mirrors #purpose #turn #whole

Intelligence and education that hasn't been tempered by human affection isn't worth a damn. ↗

— Daniel Keyes

#education #flowers-for-algernon #intelligence #education

Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve. ↗