#ducati

Learning should take place when it is needed, when the learner is interested, not according to some arbitrary, fixed schedule ↗

— Donald A. Norman

#design

Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective. ↗

— Carl Sagan

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Whatever you have to say, leave The roots on, let them Dangle And the dirt Just to make clear Where they come from. ↗

— Charles Olson

#inspirational #education

There are things which cannot be taught in ten easy lessons, nor popularized for the masses; they take years of skull sweat. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#education

The hearts of women are like those little pieces of furniture with secret hiding - places, full of drawers fitted into each other; you go a lot of trouble, break your nails, and in the bottom find some withered flower, a few grains of dust - or emptiness! ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#education

A garden should make you feel you've entered privileged space -- a place not just set apart but reverberant -- and it seems to me that, to achieve this, the gardener must put some kind of twist on the existing landscape, turn its prose into something nearer poetry. ↗

— Michael Pollan

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Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results. ↗

— John Dewey

#educational-system #philosophy #education

There is no knowing that does not begin with knowing God. ↗

— Jean Calvin

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He saw that science had become as great a hoax as religion, that nationalism was a farce, patriotism a fraud, education a form of leprosy, and that morals were for cannibals ↗

— Henry Miller

#morals #nationalism #religion #science #education

There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide... ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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