#education

They visited him in saris, clumping gracelessly through red mud and long grass ... and introduced themselves as Mrs. Pillai, Mrs. Eapen and Mrs. Rajagopalan. Velutha introduced himself and his paralyzed brother Kuttappen (although he was fast asleep). He greeted them with the utmost courtesy. He addressed them all as Kochamma [an honorific title for a woman] and gave them fresh coconut water to drink. He chatted to them about the weather. The river. The fact that in his opinion coconut trees were getting shorter by the year. As were the ladies in Ayemenem. He introduced them to his surly hen. He showed them his carpentry tools, and whittled them each a little wooden spoon. It is only now, these years later, that Rahel with adult hindsight recognized the sweetness of that gesture. A grown man entertaining three raccoons, treating them like real ladies. Instinctively colluding in the conspiracy of their fiction, taking care not to decimate it with adult carelessness. Or affection. [emphasis mine] It is after all so easy to shatter a story. To break a chain of thought. To ruin a fragment of a dream being carried around carefully like a piece of porcelain. To let it be, to travel with it, as Velutha did, is much the harder thing to do. ↗

— Arundhati Roy

#imagination #love #make-believe #parenting #dreams

Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world. ↗

— Karl Kraus

#children #come #education #enough #how

Then it was that were passed the laws restricting emancipation and prohibiting education. ↗

— Henry Charles Carey

#emancipation #laws #passed #prohibiting #restricting

The education of peoples is a necessary precondition to peace. ↗

— Carlo Azeglio Ciampi

#necessary #peace #precondition

Every educated person is a future enemy. ↗

— Martin Bormann

#educated #enemy #every #future #person

I think education is one of the greatest tools for most kids not only to expand their book knowledge, but their ability to experience new things - I think it opens more doors than any other experience I can think of. ↗

— Will Estes

#any #book #doors #education #expand

Delaware River Power Squadron is dedicated to boating safety through education and civic activities in several locations in Philadelphia while also serving the boating public throughout southern Pennsylvania, the Delaware River, and the Chesapeake Bay. ↗

— Robert Brady

#also #bay #chesapeake #civic #dedicated

I'm committed to universal health coverage and education. ↗

— Carol Moseley Braun

#coverage #education #health #i #universal

And the issues I think are important in Louisiana right now happen to be health care and education. And those are two areas that the federal government can play a very important role. And I think I can be effective in trying to help our state from the Washington scene. ↗

— John Breaux

#care #education #effective #federal #federal government

Or the Department of Education and another ministry were worried about duplication of effort, so what did they do? They set up two committees to look into duplication and neither knew what the other was up to. It really is a world beyond parody. ↗

— Rory Bremner

#another #beyond #committees #department #did