#ear

I began with the desire to speak with the dead. ↗

— Stephen Greenblatt

#education #historians #history #knowledge #shakespeare

But one learns from books and reels only that certain things can be done. Actual learning requires that you do those things. ↗

— Frank Herbert

#books #education #learning #education

As you work to become a better student, remember that learning is far more important than the numbers on your transcript. I know it can be hard sometimes to remember what you're in school for. In some places, students go crazy over a tenth of a point - but this is an unhealthy and unsustainable way to manage your education. The real reason you're in school is to grow as a person and fulfill your potential. ↗

— Stefanie Weisman

#learning #students #education

Odd how we focus on studying wars at at school to form our 'education'. No wonder we know so little about making and forging peace as adults. ↗

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

#learning #peace #peacemaking #rasheed-ogunlaru-quote #studying

Education occurs when students set out to educate themselves… the student will only learn, can only learn, what he chooses to learn…(An) advantage of not pushing is an innate sense (his) education is (his) responsibility and reward. ↗

— Oliver DeMille

#learn #learning #education

If education really educates, there will, in time, be more and more citizens who understand that relics of the old West add meaning and value to the new. Youth yet unborn will pole up the Missouri with Lewis and Clark, or climb the Sierras with James Capen Adams, and each generation in turn will ask: Where is the big white bear? It will be a sorry answer to say he went under while conservationists weren't looking. ↗

— Aldo Leopold

#conservations #endangered-species #exploration #history #the-west

In Hollywood, if you have any success, you have this fear: What do you have to do to hang onto it? ↗

— David Caruso

#fear #hang #hollywood #onto #success

In order to benefit fully from the education provided in the Theocratic Ministry School, you, the student, must make a personal effort. ↗

— Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania

#jw #learning #education

After the woman left, Gran, staring out back at the Zebra Forest, said to me, 'I'm a liar, I'll admit. But I pride myself on being a really good liar. That's part of my educational philosophy, too, Annie B. Mark that down. Lesson one: If you're going to do something, make sure to do it with excellence. ↗

— Adina Rishe Gewirtz

#excellence #learning #lying #education

But if the abberations of foolish youth made me forget suc wise lessons for a time,I have the happiness to sense at last that whatever the inclination one may have toward vice,it is difficult for an education in which the heart is involved to remain forever lost. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#heart #vice #education