#nat

Your dreams will never come true through some kind of magic. They will become reality only through self confidence, determination, dedication and effort ↗

— Mouloud Benzadi

#dreams

Leaders unify nations by creating an external enemy, and nations make that dream comes true. ↗

— M.F. Moonzajer

#enemy #leader #nations #dreams

Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books. ↗

— John Lubbock

#books #earth #ever #excellent #fields

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't. ↗

— Anatole France

#education

It’s in our nature to want to watch our human frailties played out on a huge, epic canvas. Ancient societies had anthropomorphic gods: a huge pantheon expanding into centuries of dynastic drama: fathers and sons, star-crossed lovers, warring brothers, martyred heroes. Tales that taught us the danger of hubris and the primacy of humility. It’s the everyday stuff of everyman’s life, but it’s writ large, and we love it. ↗

— Tom Hiddleston

#human-nature #stories #tradition #life

An environment-based education movement--at all levels of education--will help students realize that school isn't supposed to be a polite form of incarceration, but a portal to the wider world. ↗

— Richard Louv

#nature #parenting #education

I'm so not stylish by nature, but I've learned to work with what I have. ↗

— Julie Bowen

#learned #nature #stylish #work

I left the fairy tales lying on the floor of the nursery, and I have not found any books so sensible since. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#fairy-tales #imagination #nursery-rhymes #storytelling #education

Sunday was a day when players could not dispatch their doubles. Instead, clones went to the garage, where they studied educational ... ↗

— J.M.K. Walkow

#education

Fate is unalterable only in the sense that given a cause, a certain result must follow, but no cause is inevitable in itself, and man can shape his world if he does not resign himself to ignorance. ↗

— Pearl S. Buck

#destiny #education #fate #ignorance #self-determination