#education

Some people get an education without going to college. The rest get it after they get out. ↗

— Mark Twain

#education #education

People who cannot put strings of sentences together in good order cannot think. An educational system that does not teach the technology of writing is preventing thought. ↗

— Richard Mitchell

#logic #thought #education

...even though I was getting better education at home than any of the kids in Toyah, I'd need to go to finishing school when I was thirteen, both to acquire social graces and to earn a diploma. Because in this world, Dad said, it's not enough to have a fine education. You need a piece of paper to prove you go it. ↗

— Jeannette Walls

#sarcasm #education

Without thinking highly either of men or of matrimony, marriage had always been her object; it was the only honourable provision for well-educated young women of small fortune, and however uncertain of giving happiness, must be their pleasantest preservative from want. ↗

— Jane Austen

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A democratic civilization will save itself only if it makes the language of the image into a stimulus for critical reflection — not an invitation for hypnosis. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#images #mass-media #reflection #symbols #television

He wastes his time over his writing, trying to accomplish what geniuses and rare men with college educations sometimes accomplish. ↗

— Jack London

#intelligence #pessimism #real #writers #writing

Adversity is only yet another means to remind us of 'How Truly Awsome We All Are'! ↗

— W. O. Wainwright

#educational #humane #insightful #inspirational #reaffirming

Jack Woodson is currently living and working in Dallas, TX. He has forty children, and all of them have different mothers. ↗

— John Pearson

#humor #teaching #education

The meeting began well, meaning it had the potential for being short. ↗

— Tucker Elliot

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Nós, pais erramos muito e frequentemente porque os manuais são genéricos e nosso produto específico. ↗

— Carlos Messa

#education #educação #family #filhos #pais