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I played with children so that I could learn from them. ↗

— Shinichi Suzuki

#education

I wanted that future officer to weigh decisions with a supple mind and to be comfortable with nuance and uncertainty. ↗

— Craig M. Mullaney

#dadt #history #military #philosophy #politics

It required all his delicate Epicurean education to prevent his doing something about it; he had to repeat over to himself his favorite notions: that the injustice and unhappiness in the world is a constant; that the theory of progress is a delusion; that the poor, never having known happiness, are insensible to misfortune. Like all the rich he could not bring himself to believe that the poor (look at their houses, look at their clothes) could really suffer. Like all the cultivated he believed that only the widely read could be said to know that they were unhappy. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

#insensitivity #poverty #education

There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#happiness #inspirational #friendship

It wasn't all that different from any particularly demanding boarding school, except that of course nobody ever went home for the holidays and we had a lot of brain surgery. ↗

— Kage Baker

#humor #education

Use technology with me, I’ll participate, I’ll transfer, I’ll employ, and I’ll create. ↗

— Tony Erben Ruth Ban Martha Castaneda

#students #teaching #technology #education

When the atmosphere encourages learning, the learning is inevitable. ↗

— Elizabeth Foss

#education #homeschooling #education

Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#friendship

Here's to another year and let's hope it's above ground. ↗

— Carol Shields

#humor #living #age

(on teachers) But by the end of two years, most have either changed careers or moved to suburban schools - a consequence of low pay, a lack of support from the educational bureaucracy, and a pervasive feeling of isolation. ↗

— Barack Obama

#change