#ed

Daisy didn't just change our lives, she changed our destiny. ↗

— Maryam Faresh

#cats #cesar-millan #deafblind #dogs #inspirational

Osama, baah!" Bashir roared. "Osama is not a product of Pakistan or Afghanistan. He is a creation of America. Thanks to America, Osama is in every home. As a military man, I know you can never fight and win against someone who can shoot at you once and then run off and hide while you have to remain eternally on guard. You have to attack the source of your enemy's strength. In America's case, that's not Osama or Saddam or anyone else. The enemy is ignorance. That only way to defeat it is to build relationships with these people, to draw them into the modern world with education and business. Otherwise the fight will go on forever. ↗

— Greg Mortenson

#education #ignorance #osama #terrorism #war-on-terror

A fondness for reading, properly directed, must be an education in itself. ↗

— Jane Austen

#reading #education

Only the educated are free. ↗

— Epictetus

#educated #free #only

Our stable and eternal verities are being challenged. There's a kind of postmodern breakdown in journalism. The breadth of information sources and the speed of transmission are growing; but the traditional gravity of news has eroded. -Jin Yongquan ↗

— Judy Polumbaum

#efficacy #ethics #journalism #journalists #media

If anyone says that the best life of all is to sail the sea, and then adds that I must not sail upon a sea where shipwrecks are a common occurrence and there are often sudden storms that sweep the helmsman in an adverse direction, I conclude that this man, although he lauds navigation, really forbids me to launch my ship. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#hypocrisy #pith #education

A person can be educated and still be stupid, and a wise man can have no education at all. ↗

— Jennifer A. Nielsen

#the-false-prince #education

Ask yourself: 'Do I feel the need to laminate?' Then teaching is for you. ↗

— Gordon Korman

#laminating #teachers #teaching #education

People talk about history and things like slavery, genocide, and religious persecution as horrors that happened in the past because we were ignorant. But nothing's changed. We still hate what we don't understand. ↗

— J. Matthew Nespoli

#crime #fear #hatred #ignorance #prejudice

I don't feel stupid, just inadequate. After three years of studying the law, I'm very much aware of how little I know. ↗

— John Grisham

#education