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From innumerable complexities we must grow to simplicity; we must become simple in our inward life and in our outward needs. ↗

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

#simplicity-in-life #education

In every French village there is now a lighted torch, the schoolmaster; and a mouth trying to blow it out, the priest. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#religion #education

Thou shalt educate thyself. ↗

— Jeff Olsen

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People can have their opinions about everything in the world, but people's opinions end where the tip of my nose begins. Your opinions of others can only go so far as to where their own shoreline is. The world is for your taking, but other people are not. One is only allowed to have an opinion of me, if that person is done educating him/herself on everything about me. Before people educate themselves on everything about you, they're not allowed to open their venomous mouthes and have an opinion about you. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#life #life-and-living #living #living-life #opinions

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence. ↗

— Abigail Adams

#learning #education

Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#self-control #education

I read my eyes out and can't read half enough...the more one reads the more one sees we have to read. ↗

— John Adams

#lifelong-learning #reading #education

Oh, very good,' interrupted Snape, his lip curling. 'Yes, it is easy to see that nearly six years of magical education have not been wasted on you, Potter. 'Ghosts are transparent. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

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We spend the first year of a child's life teaching it to walk and talk and the rest of its life to shut up and sit down. There's something wrong there. ↗

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

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Instruction does much, but encouragement everything." (Letter to A.F. Oeser, Nov. 9, 1768) ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#encouragement #instruction #learning #school #education