#hum

An empty skull is the vanitas symbol of modern education. ↗

— Bauvard

#funny #humor #vanitas #education

It’s in our nature to want to watch our human frailties played out on a huge, epic canvas. Ancient societies had anthropomorphic gods: a huge pantheon expanding into centuries of dynastic drama: fathers and sons, star-crossed lovers, warring brothers, martyred heroes. Tales that taught us the danger of hubris and the primacy of humility. It’s the everyday stuff of everyman’s life, but it’s writ large, and we love it. ↗

— Tom Hiddleston

#human-nature #stories #tradition #life

A lecture has been well described as the process whereby the notes of the teacher become the notes of the student without passing through the mind of either. ↗

— Mortimer J. Adler

#humor #education

I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good. ↗

— Martin Luther King Jr.

#education #evil #good #humane #morality

No man threatens His Grace in the presence of the Kingsguard.” Tyrion Lannister raised an eyebrow. “I am not threatening the king, ser, I am educating my nephew. Bronn, Timett, the next time Ser Boros opens his mouth, kill him.” The dwarf smiled. “Now that was a threat, ser. See the difference? ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#humor #tyrion-lannister #education

Embarrassing facts, those would really help our children remember their classroom lessons better. ↗

— Bauvard

#funny #humor #shame #education

If you know your Bible and your Shakespeare and can shoot craps, you have a liberal education. ↗

— Tallulah Bankhead

#humor #education

Why, Hurst couldn’t have hit the side of Westminster Abbey with a pistol, even by throwing the silly thing. ↗

— Patricia Cabot

#education

The humanities should constitute the core of any university worth the name. ↗

— Terry Eagleton

#education #humanities #university #education

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