#education

If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library. ↗

— Frank Zappa

#education #get #go #laid #library

The only things you learn are the things you tame ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

#education #learning #persistence #education

Non-judgment quiets the internal dialogue, and this opens once again the doorway to creativity. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

#creativity #deepak-chopra #educational #inner-self #inner-voice

The problem is not the content of textbooks, but the very idea of them. ↗

— Sam Wineburg

#history #education

Teachers are the one and only people who save nations. ↗

— Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

#inspirational #youth #education

Keep me in your heart and know that however great the distance, I am with you always. ↗

— Craig M. Mullaney

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Any nation that expects to be ignorant and free," Jefferson said, "expects what never was and never will be." And if the gap between the educated and the uneducated in America continues to grow as it is in our time, as fast as or faster than the gap between the rich and the poor, the gap between the educated and the uneducated is going to be of greater consequence and the more serious threat to our way of life. We must not, by any means, misunderstand that. ↗

— David McCullough

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Author describes auto CEO's decisions to drive rather than fly to Washington as "showy penitence". ↗

— Ron Suskind

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The plain fact is that education is itself a form of propaganda - a deliberate scheme to outfit the pupil, not with the capacity to weigh ideas, but with a simple appetite for gulping ideas ready-made. The aim is to make 'good' citizens, which is to say, docile and uninquisitive citizens. ↗

— H.L. Mencken

#homeschool #homeschooling #education

Any formal attack on ignorance is bound to fail because the masses are always ready to defend their most precious possession - their ignorance. ↗

— Hendrik Willem Van Loon

#hendrick-van-loon #ignorance #society #willful-ignorance #education