#education

Yes, it is easy to see that nearly six years of magical education have not been wasted on you, Potter. Ghosts are transparent. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

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I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grades, fear of not staying with your class, etc. Interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear explosion to a firecracker. ↗

— Stanley Kubrick

#fear #interest #learning #education

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained ↗

— Walt Disney Company

#entertainment #education

In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made school boards. ↗

— Mark Twain

#humor #education

Education never ends, Watson. It is a series of lessons, with the greatest for the last. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

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Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#knowledge-wisdom #learning #school #science #wisdom

I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion by education. This is the true corrective of abuses of Constitutional power. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#education #government #liberty #politics #education

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. ↗

— Derek Bok

#expensive #ignorance #think #try #you

What a school thinks about its library is a measure of what it feels about education. ↗

— Harold Howe

#libraries #library #school #education

Education is a system of imposed ignorance. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#homeschooling #ignorance #public-education #education