#education

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#education #reading #education

My definition of good literature is that which can be read by an educated reader, and reread with increased pleasure. ↗

— Gene Wolfe

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I suppose it is because nearly all children go to school nowadays and have things arranged for them that they seem so forlornly unable to produce their own ideas. ↗

— Agatha Christie

#homeschool #homeschooling #learning #education

Common sense is in spite of, not the result of, education. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#education #education

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#because #been #company #educated #i

Without thinking highly either of men or of matrimony, marriage had always been her object; it was the only honourable provision for well-educated young women of small fortune, and however uncertain of giving happiness, must be their pleasantest preservative from want. ↗

— Jane Austen

#education

A democratic civilization will save itself only if it makes the language of the image into a stimulus for critical reflection — not an invitation for hypnosis. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#images #mass-media #reflection #symbols #television

He wastes his time over his writing, trying to accomplish what geniuses and rare men with college educations sometimes accomplish. ↗

— Jack London

#intelligence #pessimism #real #writers #writing

Adversity is only yet another means to remind us of 'How Truly Awsome We All Are'! ↗

— W. O. Wainwright

#educational #humane #insightful #inspirational #reaffirming

Jack Woodson is currently living and working in Dallas, TX. He has forty children, and all of them have different mothers. ↗

— John Pearson

#humor #teaching #education