#hum

As for my own truncated secondary education, my head was in the clouds as my mom would say, or if you asked my father, up my ass. ↗

— Michael J. Fox

#education

Let me tell you something, I have never stated this, but you idiots refer to me as some moroon, I have a aster and a lwa degree. I simply cannot take the bar because of my stupid past in my 20’s. You people do not want to go up against m on education because most of you will lose badly. ↗

— Larry Sinclair

#education

Millions of people have been lifted from poverty and have gained access to modern education and health care. We have a universal declaration of human rights, and awareness of the importance of such rights has grown tremendously. As a result, the ideals of freedom and democracy have spread around the world, and there is increasing recognition of the oneness of humanity. ↗

— Dalai Lama XIV

#religion #education

The past is an educational toy for the present. It should be discarded the moment its usefulness is outgrown. ↗

— Tom Morrison

#romance #satire #stock-market #education

Board the cows! We've come to enslave your marigolds. ↗

— Libba Bray

#nonsense #silly #humor

It was a trap after all,” Alric said. He turned to Royce. “My apologies for doubting your sound paranoia. ↗

— Michael J. Sullivan

#humor

The Patriots had picked Brady in the sixth round, and he soon turned out to be one of the two or three best quarterbacks in the League, and absolutely perfect for the Belichick system and for the team's offense. So, as the team continued to make a series of very good calls on other player personnel choices, there was a general tendency to talk about how brilliant Pioli and Belichick were, and to regard Pioli as the best young player personnel man in the League. Just to remind himself not to believe all the hype and that he could readily have screwed up on that draft, Pioli kept on his desk a photo of Brady, along with a photo of the team's fifth-round traft choice, the man he had taken ahead of Brady: Dave Stachelski. He was a Tight End from Boise State who never a played a down for New England. Stachelski was taken with the 141st pick, Brady with the 199th one. 'If I was so smart,' Pioli liked to say, 'I wouldn't have risked an entire round of the draft in picking Brady. ↗

— David Halberstam

#education

Good work, like good talk or any other form of worthwhile human relationship, depends upon being able to assume an extended shared world. ↗

— Stefan Collini

#education-system #humanities #education

I had been to school most all the time, and could spell, and read, and write just a little, and could say the multiplication table up to six times seven is thirty-five, and I don't reckon I could ever get any further than that if I was to live forever. I don't take no stock in mathematics, anyway. ↗

— Mark Twain

#humor #mathematics #school #education

Your Wheezy, sir, your Wheezy — Wheezy who is giving Dobby his sweater! ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#humor #ron #humor