#ducati

True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create their own. ↗

— Nikos Kazantzakis

#learning #teaching #education

A man who has never gone to school may steal a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#business-regulation #corruption #education #business

Leaders are not, as we are often led to think, people who go along with huge crowds following them. Leaders are people who go their own way without caring, or even looking to see, whether anyone is following them. "Leadership qualities" are not the qualities that enable people to attract followers, but those that enable them to do without them. They include, at the very least, courage, endurance, patience, humor, flexibility, resourcefulness, stubbornness, a keen sense of reality, and the ability to keep a cool and clear head, even when things are going badly. True leaders, in short, do not make people into followers, but into other leaders. ↗

— John Holt

#homeschooling #leadership #unschooling #courage

Governments want efficient technicians, not human beings, because human beings become dangerous to governments – and to organized religions as well. That is why governments and religious organizations seek to control education. ↗

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

#government #religion #education

I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone. The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#ignorance #education

The soul takes nothing with her to the next world but her education and her culture. At the beginning of the journey to the next world, one's education and culture can either provide the greatest assistance, or else act as the greatest burden, to the person who has just died. ↗

— Plato

#culture #education #education

Peace does not mean an absence of conflicts; differences will always be there. Peace means solving these differences through peaceful means; through dialogue, education, knowledge; and through humane ways. ↗

— Dalai Lama XIV

#education #humane #knowledge #peace #education

You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing -- that's what counts. ↗

— Richard P. Feynman

#science #education

There are few things more pathetic than those who have lost their curiosity and sense of adventure, and who no longer care to learn. ↗

— Gordon B. Hinckley

#education #lifelong-learning #education

I don’t think it would have all got me quite so down if just once in a while—just once in a while—there was at least some polite little perfunctory implication that knowledge should lead to wisdom, and that if it doesn't, it's just a disgusting waste of time! But there never is! You never even hear any hints dropped on a campus that wisdom is supposed to be the goal of knowledge. You hardly ever even hear the word 'wisdom' mentioned! ↗

— J.D. Salinger

#education #wisdom #education