#men

I must judge for myself, but how can I judge, how can any man judge, unless his mind has been opened and enlarged by reading. ↗

— John Adams

#education #reading #education

‎I know you're still young but I want you to understand and learn this now. Marriage can wait, education cannot. You're a very very bright girl. Truly you are. You can be anything you want Laila. I know this about you. And I also know that when this war is over Afghanistan is going to need you as much as its men maybe even more. Because a society has no chance of success if its women are uneducated Laila. No chance. ↗

— Khaled Hosseini

#bright #country #education #marriage #smart

Rewards and punishment is the lowest form of education. ↗

— Zhuangzi

#form #lowest #lowest form #punishment #rewards

Everything can be explained to the people, on the single condition that you want them to understand. ↗

— Frantz Fanon

#development #education #politics #education

I drive around the streets an inch away from weeping, ashamed of my sentimentality and possible love. ↗

— Charles Bukowski

#sentimentality #weep #weeping #love

Creativity is the highest form of intelligence. Over time, after developing a more advanced creative brain, I started feeling that my college education was more so something to be ashamed of rather than something to be proud of. ↗

— Criss Jami

#ashamed #brain #college #creativity #development

To reap a return in ten years, plant trees. To reap a return in 100, cultivate the people. ↗

— Hồ Chí Minh

#growth #investment #progress #society #education

A library is a place where you learn what teachers were afraid to teach you. ↗

— Alan M. Dershowitz

#libraries #political-commentary #education

There is something deeply hypocritical in a society that holds an inner-city child only eight years old "accountable" for her performance on a high-stakes standardized exam but does not hold the high officials of our government accountable for robbing her of what they gave their own kids six or seven years before. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#education #government #poverty #standardized-tests #education

...it's not enough to fight for a better world; we also have to live lives worth fighting for. ↗

— Eric Greitens

#education