#ed

A Fairy must make her own way in the world, for the world will never make way for her. That, incidentally, is the First Theorem of Questing Physicks, which you’ll learn all about when you’re older and don’t care anymore. ↗

— Catherynne M. Valente

#growing-up #learning #education

You cannot live a nonviolent life as long as you are consuming violence. Please consider going vegan. ↗

— Gary L. Francione

#abolitionist #ahimsa #animals #education #exploitation

I feel that all knowledge should be in the free-trade zone. Your knowledge, my knowledge, everybody's knowledge should be made use of. I think people who refuse to use other people's knowledge are making a big mistake. Those who refuse to share their knowledge with other people are making a great mistake, because we need it all. I don't have any problem about ideas I got from other people. If I find them useful, I'll just ease them right in and make them my own. ↗

— Myles Horton

#ideas #knowledge #sharing #thinking #change

There are all kinds of ignorance in the world. Education, learning to read and write, doesn't necessarily give us knowledge. We have to learn to use our minds to see what is really happening. ↗

— Linda Leaming

#ignorance #learning #education

If we only stopped to listen to them for a few minutes, kids could tell us that we move too fast, for their good and ours. ↗

— Hillary Rodham Clinton

#education

The essence of education is, in the words of William James, to teach a person what deserves to be valued, to impart ideals as well as knowledge, to cultivate in students the ability to distinguish the true and good from their counterfeits and the wisdom to prefer the former to the latter. ↗

— William J. Bennett

#education

[A] permanent possibility of selfishness arises from the mere fact of having a self, and not from any accidents of education or ill-treatment. And the weakness of all Utopias is this, that they take the greatest difficulty of man and assume it to be overcome, and then give an elaborate account of the overcoming of the smaller ones. They first assume that no man will want more than his share, and then are very ingenious in explaining whether his share will be delivered by motor-car or balloon. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#education

You musn't neglect your education in favor of your studies. ↗

— Nick O'Donohoe

#education

The task of teaching has never been more complex and the expectations that burden teachers are carried out in antiquated systems that offer little support—and yet, teachers are finding success every day. ↗

— Tucker Elliot

#teaching #education

The bullet that has hit us Muslims today left the gun centuries ago when we let the clergy decide that knowledge and education were not important. ↗

— Nadeem Aslam

#islamism #literature #education