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The purpose of school should not be to prepare students for more school. We should be seeking to have fully engaged students now. ↗

— Donalyn Miller

#education #school-reform #schools #students #education

If we're growing, we're always going to be out of our comfort zone. ↗

— John Maxwell

#growth #life #life

It seemed so simple in a lot of ways, to use a basic melody to pull away from myself. To ease the pain and hide my feelings deep within a metaphor that only I understood. I couldn’t have foreseen that my quiet and dark night of the soul would start me down a path of expression through song. ↗

— Mike Ericksen

#healing-grief #music #music

If you use a philosophy education well, you can get your foot in the door of any industry you please. Industries are like the blossoms on a tree while philosophy is the trunk - it holds the tree together, but it often goes unnoticed. ↗

— Criss Jami

#business #businesses #careers #college #decisions

Humanity needs heroic leadership from those who see all life as precious. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#humanity #leadership #needs #leadership

As with many life-altering events, an autoimmune illness is almost guaranteed to cause you to re-evaluate your priorities. ↗

— Joan Friedlander

#chronic-illness #life

Life is a journey that gives you the liberty to draw your own map, and choose your own route. ↗

— Dennis E. Adonis

#decisions #future #journey #life #mistakes

Because personally I think mattering is a piss-poor idea. I just want to fly under the radar, because when you start to make yourself into a big deal, that’s when you get shot down. The bigger a deal you are, the worse your life is. ↗

— John Green

#recognition #life

The hero is the one who goes beyond his ability to improve his skills, until he becomes able to improve, and perhaps even alter, the skills of others. ↗

— Muhammad Adb Al-Rahman Al-Arifi

#improvement #life

Everybody does stupid things in life. Some of us more than others. You think you're going to get away with it. Or one or both of you just stop thinking. But it happens. And when it does, you can keep drinking it like poison, or you can put it behind you and go make the most of the rest of your life. ↗

— Claire Cook

#life #life-lessons #mistakes #life