#education

NSF is the only federal agency with a proven track record of selecting education projects through a rigorous, careful and competitive process that draws on a wide variety of experts from outside government. ↗

— Bob Inglis

#careful #competitive #draws #education #experts

I think you learn more if you're laughing at the same time. ↗

— Mary Ann Shaffer

#humor #education

All I have learned, I learned from books. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#education #lifelong-learning #lincoln #reading #self-education

School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is. ↗

— Ivan Illich

#homeschool #homeschooling #education

Only a very few can be learned, but all can be Christian, all can be devout, and – I shall boldly add – all can be theologians. ↗

— Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus

#education #learning #religion #theology #education

Civilizations rise and fall on confidence. America had figured out a way to borrow money to manufacture it. ↗

— Ron Suskind

#materialism #optimism #education

Homeschool history tells of more than two centuries of home-teaching influence on American education, although it has been largely obscured by the drawn curtains of conventional bias. ↗

— Raymond S. Moore

#homeschool #education

Both of these students- both high school seniors both old enough to vote in the upcoming election- thought 'Al' Qaeda was a person. At that time the United States had been at war for five and a half years and here were two students two young adults leaving the educational system who had never heard of al Qaeda. Both by the way had passed the multiple-choice reading section of the state's high school exit exam. ↗

— Kelly Gallagher

#education

Teaching kids how to feed themselves and how to live in a community responsibly is the center of an education. ↗

— Alice Waters

#community #education #farming #food #education

Now, I have nothing against the public school system as it is presently organized, once you allow the humor of its basic assumption about how it is possible to teach things to children.... ↗

— Shirley Jackson

#humor #school #education