#earning

Science is an attempt, largely successful, to understand the world, to get a grip on things, to get hold of ourselves, to steer a safe course. Microbiology and meteorology now explain what only a few centuries ago was considered sufficient cause to burn women to death. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#learning #science #death

Life is a test.  It was designed to be so.  It is where we taste the bitter and the sweet; where we feel pain and pleasure; where we learn right from wrong; where we pass through both darkness and light.  It is a time to make choices.  And through this process we form our characters - some grand and glorious, some barely decent, and others just plain monstrous.  ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#choices #learning #life #opposition #richelle

In designing tasks, the instructor should take care to ensure that the task design requires active student participation and promotes the acquisition of the task's pedagogical goals. ↗

— Abdi Kazeroni

#pedagogy #student #tasks #teaching #design

Each night I lie and dream about the one Who kissed me and awakened my desire I spent a single hour with him alone And since that hour, my days are layed with fire. ↗

— L.J. Smith

#lust #obsession #yearning #dreams

Segregation shaped me; education liberated me. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#inspirational #learning #race #education

Was not Hypatia the greatest philosopher of Alexandria, and a true martyr to the old values of learning? She was torn to pieces by a mob of incensed Christians not because she was a woman, but because her learning was so profound, her skills at dialectic so extensive that she reduced all who queried her to embarrassed silence. They could not argue with her, so they murdered her. ↗

— Iain Pears

#dialectics #education #greatness #hypatia-of-alexandria #knowledge

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

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence. ↗

— Abigail Adams

#learning #education

I read my eyes out and can't read half enough...the more one reads the more one sees we have to read. ↗

— John Adams

#lifelong-learning #reading #education

Instruction does much, but encouragement everything." (Letter to A.F. Oeser, Nov. 9, 1768) ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#encouragement #instruction #learning #school #education