#education

We study biology, physics, movements of glaciers... Where are the classes on envy, feeling wronged, despair, bitterness... ↗

— Alain de Botton

#education

Never feel like or say you are "giving up" your favorite foods. Those words have a negative connotation, like you are sacrificing something. You're not "giving up" anything. You are simply empowered now and able to make educated, controlled choices about what you will and won't put into your body, your temple. ↗

— Rory Freedman

#education

In this world, it's not enough to have a fine education. You need a piece of paper to prove you got it. ↗

— Jeannette Walls

#education

There's nothing more useless than a mind filled with someone else's thoughts. ↗

— Laurie Gray

#knowledge #education

I think it's hard to learn democracy when we make children prisoners until they're nineteen years old. ↗

— Mimsy Sadofsky

#democracy #education #politics #education

Welcome to Hartford. The poorest city in the wealthiest state in the richest country on earth. ↗

— Susan Eaton

#poverty #school-reform #education

the difference between the old and the new education being) in a word, the old was a kind of propagation - men transmitting manhood to men; the new is merely propaganda. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#ethics #legacy #manhood #men #morality

If my duty to my parents is a superstition, then so is my duty to posterity. If justice is a superstition, then so is my duty to my country or my race. If the pursuit of scientific knowledge is a real value, then so is conjugal fidelity. The rebellion of new ideologies against the Tao is a rebellion of the branches against the tree: if the rebels could succeed they would find that they had destroyed themselves. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#culture #education #modern-society #post-modernism #society

A free country? they asked. You should live so long. What's free about it, they reasoned, when the law forces you to educate your children and then endangers their lives to get them into school? ↗

— Betty Smith

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Getting an education is an awfully wearing process! ↗

— Jean Webster

#weary #education