#lessons

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more intelligent and more educated than college professors. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#education #knowledge #life-lessons #understanding #education

Without books we should very likely be a still-primitive people living in the shadow of traditions that faded with years until only a blur remained, and different memories would remember the past in different ways. A parent or a teacher has only his lifetime; a good book can teach forever.Without books we should very likely be a still-primitive people living in the shadow of traditions that faded with years until only a blur remained, and different memories would remember the past in different ways. A parent or a teacher has only his lifetime; a good book can teach forever. ↗

— Louis L'Amour

#education #life-lessons #literacy #literate-culture #reading

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

YOU. ARE. PERFECT. You are. Im talking to YOU. and dont you dare think otherwise...embrace the entity of yourself...you are a puzzle piece and you are meant to be puzzling. ↗

— Kaiden Blake

#inspiration #inspirational-quotes #life #life-lessons #philosophy

Give a hippie too much money and anything can happen. ↗

— Neil Young

#money #sarcasm-humor #dreams

Life is a chain of events executed in a way which is - most convenient to ‘you’, ‘your’ dreams & people ‘you’ desire to be with & people you have been put up to live with... ↗

— Sujit Lalwani

#life #life-lessons #dreams

What is the most important thing one learns in school? Self-esteem, support, and friendship. ↗

— Terry Tempest Williams

#lessons #school #education