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At first I felt dizzy - not with the kind of dizziness that makes the body reel but the kind that's like a dead emptiness in the brain, an instinctive awareness of the void. ↗

— Fernando Pessoa

#emptiness #pessoa #stoic #void #education

We can get too easily bogged down in the academic part of homeschooling, a relatively minor part of the whole, which is to raise competent, caring, literate, happy people. ↗

— Diane Flynn Keith

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Let children alone... the education of habit is successful in so far as it enables the mother to let her children alone, not teasing them with perpetual commands and directions - a running fire of Do and Don’t ; but letting them go their own way and grow, having first secured that they will go the right way and grow to fruitful purpose. ↗

— Charlotte M. Mason

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Strange as it seems, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and higher education positively fortifies it. ↗

— Stephen Vizinczey

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History is important because it teaches us about past. And by learning about the past, ypu come to understand the present, so that you may make educated decisions about the future. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#young-adult #education

It seems that our brave new world is becoming less tolerant, spiritual and educated than it ever was when I was young. ↗

— Lemmy Kilmister

#worldview #education

Most of my friends from Columbia are going on to get advanced degrees. And why not? A Ph.D. is the new M.A., a master's is the new bachelor's, a B.A. is the new high school diploma, and a high school diploma is the new smiley-face sticker on your first-grade spelling test. ↗

— Megan McCafferty

#jessica-darling #education

An educated man should know everything about something and something about everything ↗

— Cicely Veronica Wedgwood

#knowledge #education

It has been discovered that with a dull urban population, all formed under a mechanical system of State education, a suggestion or command, however senseless and unreasoned, will be obeyed if it be sufficiently repeated. ↗

— Hilaire Belloc

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For every one pupil who needs to be guarded against a weak excess of sensibility there are three who need to be awakened from the slumber of cold vulgarity. The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles but to irrigate deserts. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

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