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Only to the degree that people have what they need, that they are healthy and unafraid, that their lives are varied, interesting, meaningful, productive, joyous, can we begin to judge, or even guess, their nature. Few people, adults or children, now live such lives. ↗

— John Holt

#health #human-nature #life-lessons #society #wisdom

I can think of another quickie education for a child, which, in its way, is almost as salutary: Meeting a human being who is tremendously respected by the adult world, and realizing that that person is actually a malicious lunatic. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#humor #lessons-learned #education

In the beginning the Poets and Philosophers taught the world to see. Then after that any form of education was no longer free. ↗

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

#education

One of our greatest challenges is to handle Winning without arrogance, being educated without being condescending and having compassion without developing indifference ↗

— Kalon Jackson

#education

If you happened to be born on third base, you didn't rub it in the face of the guy who wasn't even born in the stadium. Self-interest was generally checked at the door with your coat and hat. ↗

— Ron Suskind

#greatest-generation #magnanimity #noblesse-oblige #education

Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it. ↗

— C.M. Stunich

#children #education #inspirational #lessons #moral-responsibility

Without education … what is man but a splendid slave, a reasoning savage vacillating between the dignity of an intelligence derived from God and the degradation of passion participated with brutes… ↗

— Chukwudifu Oputa

#growth #life-lessons #education

A marriage of two independent and equally irritable intelligences seems to me reckless to the point of insanity. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#intelligence #irritability #marriage #matrimony #recklessness

You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestation of your own blessings. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#happiness #blessings

One thing of great importance can affect a small number of people. Equally so, a thing of little importance can affect a multitude. Either way, a happening — big or small — can affect an entire string of people. Occurences can join us all together. ↗

— Cecelia Ahern

#lesson #people #equality