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My very small part in WATCHMEN is that, every now and then, Alan would phone me: ''Neil, you're an educated man. Where does it say...'' He would need a quote from the Bible, or an essay about owls. I was his occasional research assistant. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

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There is no wealth like knowledge, no poverty like ignorance ↗

— Ali Bin Abi Thalib

#inspirational #education

Master Graves was incensed and said, as punishment for my disruption, I would have to write my letters an extra ten times that day. "Ten times the better I'll know them, then." I said. "How strange that you should punish me by ensuring I come out more educated than Roden, who has tried to obey you. ↗

— Jennifer A. Nielsen

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The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any. ↗

— Hannah Arendt

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Teenagers read millions of books every year. They read for entertainment and for education. They read because of school assignments and pop culture fads. And there are millions of teens who read because they are sad and lonely and enraged. They read because they live in an often-terrible world. They read because they believe despite the callow protestations of certain adults that books-especially the dark and dangerous ones-will save them. ↗

— Sherman Alexie

#salvation #teens #education

You can present the material, but you can't make me care. ↗

— Bill Watterson

#education #student-accountability #education

Even those who do not, or cannot, avail themselves of a scientific education, choose to benefit from the technology that is made possible by the scientific education of others. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#science #education

One cannot expect positive results from an educational or political action program which fails to respect the particular view of the world held by the people. Such a program constitutes cultural invasion, good intentions notwithstanding. ↗

— Paulo Freire

#culture #education #politics #education

Even if it were true that evolution, or the teaching of evolution, encouraged immorality that would not imply that the theory of evolution was false. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#evolution #education

When you take the time to actually listen, with humility, to what people have to say, it's amazing what you can learn. Especially if the people who are doing the talking also happen to be children. ↗

— Greg Mortenson

#communication #education #parenting #communication