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Our parents can show us a lot of things: they can show us how we are to be and what things we ought to strive for, or they can show us how not to be and what things we ought to stray from, then you may have the kind of parents that show you all the things about you that you want to get rid of and you realize those traits aren't yours at all but are merely your parents' marks that have rubbed off onto you. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#learning #parents #parents-and-children #self-awareness #self-development

Sine doctrina vita est quasi mortis imago" [Without learning, life is but the image of death] ↗

— Dionysius Cato

#growth #inspirational #learning #death

For thousands of years humans were oppressed— as some of us still are— by the notion that the universe is a marionette whose strings are pulled by a god or gods, unseen and inscrutable. Then, 2,500 years ago, there was a glorious awakening in Ionia: on Samos and the other nearby Greek colonies that grew up among the islands and inlets of the busy eastern Aegean Sea.* Suddenly there were people who believed that everything was made of atoms; that human beings and other animals had sprung from simpler forms; that diseases were not caused by demons or the gods; that the Earth was only a planet going around the Sun. And that the stars were very far away. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#greece #ionia #knowledge #learning #reality

Before, I wanted to say: "I found love!" But now, I want to say: "I found a person. And he belongs to me and I belong to him. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#belonging #changing #growing #inspirational #inspirational-love

Because I trust in the ever-changing climate of the heart. (At least, today I feel that way.) I think it is necessary to have many experiences for the sake of feeling something; for the sake of being challenged, and for the sake of being expressive, to offer something to someone else, to learn what we are capable of. ↗

— Jason Mraz

#expression #feelings #humor #inspirational #learning

[Kids] don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are. ↗

— Jim Henson

#education #learning #teaching #education

Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel. ↗

— Socrates

#enlightenment #learning #lifelong-learning #mentorship #education

At the end of your lives you will not be judged by academic successes, the degrees or diplomas earned, the positions held, the material wealth acquired, or power and prestige, but rather on the basis of what you have become as persons and what you are in conduct and character. ↗

— Howard W. Hunter

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Genius is an exceedingly common human quality, probably natural to most of us. ↗

— John Taylor Gatto

#homeschool #homeschooling #learning #education

When children are very young, they have natural curiosities about the world and explore them, trying diligently to figure out what is real. As they become "producers " they fall away from exploration and start fishing for the right answers with little thought. They believe they must always be right, so they quickly forget mistakes and how these mistakes were made. They believe that the only good response from the teacher is "yes," and that a "no" is defeat. ↗

— John Holt

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