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Our life stories are largely constructed and without mindfulness can prove destructive. ↗

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

#behaviour #belief-systems #child-development #conditioning #education-system

Too often, it seems to me, in missionary and educational work among underdeveloped races, people yield to the temptation of doing that which was done a hundred years before, or is being done in other communities a thousand miles away. The temptation often is to run each individual through a certain educational mould, regardless of the condition of the subject or the end to be accomplished. ↗

— Booker T. Washington

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Everyone drank to popular education and to the irrigation of Uzbekistan. ↗

— Ilya Ilf

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Sometimes a little song is sweet to hear, even if the orchestra is more accomplished ↗

— Esmé Raji Codell

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Odd how we focus on studying wars at at school to form our 'education'. No wonder we know so little about making and forging peace as adults. ↗

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

#learning #peace #peacemaking #rasheed-ogunlaru-quote #studying

If you know where you are going, you are not learning. (p. 16) ↗

— Mike Higton

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educational television had a dramatic effect on relational aggression. The more the kids watched, the crueler they’d be to their classmates. This correlation was 2.5 times higher than the correlation between violent media and physical aggression. ↗

— Po Bronson

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Give a man a hoe and he is something to exploit. Give him a book and he is something to fear. ↗

— Eric Burns

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I lament the want of a liberal education. I feel the mist of ignorance to surround me - Nathanael Greene ↗

— David McCullough

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They were rather handsome, had been educated in one of the first private seminaries in town, ↗

— Jane Austen

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