#education

If a child can't learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn. ↗

— Ignacio Estrada

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Tis the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. ↗

— Aristotle

#mind #thought #education

Since most parents are reluctant to talk about sex, schools have tried to fill the gap. In America, when we decide to ignore a subject, our favorite form of denial is to teach it incompetently. Familiarity without true understanding is not only the basis of our families but of our educational system as well. ↗

— Bob Smith

#incompetence #sex-education #education

There was nothing to be done with him and his kind - unless you were prepared to shoot them. ↗

— Christopher Isherwood

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Much of education today focuses on obedience skills rather than critical thinking skills. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#knowing #skills #education

We all lose people. We all have to live in the aftermath. It’s how we move forward that counts, but sometimes we are tethered to something in our past that won’t let us move forward. ↗

— Tucker Elliot

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For your own security it’s imperative you blend in with the native population. ↗

— Tucker Elliot

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It felt like we were reliving the first day of the school year, when students and teachers do the get-to-know-you dance—teachers tell students something about who they are, students pretend to care, and then vice-versa. ↗

— Tucker Elliot

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The look of a smug teacher is priceless. ↗

— Tucker Elliot

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Standard economics assumes that we are rational... But, as the results presented in this book (and others) show, we are far less rational in our decision making... Our irrational behaviors arevneither random nor senseless- they are systematic and predictable. We all make the same types of mistakes over and over, because of he basic wiring of our brains.-pg. 239 ↗

— Dan Ariely

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