#education

You go to school everyday. Folks who think they've learned everything they need to know are usually dumber than chickens. ↗

— Jodi Thomas

#wisdom-quotes #education

I want students to engage the way a clutch on a car gets engaged: an engine can be running, making appropriate noises, burning fuel and creating exhaust fumes, but unless the clutch is engaged, nothing moves. It's all sound and smoke, and nobody gets anywhere. ↗

— Robert L. Fried

#teaching #education

It appeared clear to me - partly because of the lies that filled my history textbooks - that the intent of formal education was to inculcate obedience to a social order that did not deserve my loyalty. Defiance seemed the only dignified response to the adult world. ↗

— Timothy B. Tyson

#edcuation #history #inculcating #lies #loyalty

Lernen und nicht denken ist nichtig, denken und nicht lernen ist ermüdend. ↗

— Confucius

#education

The best thing we could have done for Afghanistan was to get out of our Humvees and drink more green chai. We should have focused less on finding the enemy, and more on finding our friends. ↗

— Craig M. Mullaney

#war #education

[P]hilosophy . . .consists chiefly in suggesting unintelligible answers to insoluble problems. ↗

— Henry Adams

#education

I would much rather be considered wise than smart. But, I still think it is wise to get an education. ↗

— Destiny Booze

#smart #wisdom #education

One of the reasons why it needs no special education to be a Christian is that Christianity is an education itself. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#education #knowledge #education

There are more good people than bad people, and overall there’s more that’s good in the world than there is that’s bad. We just need to hear about it, we just need to see it. ↗

— Tucker Elliot

#education

I can’t, Caro, it’s out of my hands now. But I promise it’s temporary. I just… after all this time… I wanted us to be able to spend more than a few hours together.” He stared at his hands. “I don’t know when I’ll see you again,” he mumbled. “I’ve already waited ten years. ↗

— Jane Harvey-Berrick

#sebastian-to-caroline #the-education-of-caroline #education