#on

Always dip your toe in the past before stepping into the future ↗

— Benny Bellamacina

#humour #life #philosophy #poetry-quotes #wisdom

Education is for freedom - freedom from mental slavery. ↗

— Ogwo David Emenike

#education #free #freedom #inspirational #mental

The very power of [textbook writers] depends on the fact that they are dealing with a boy: a boy who thinks he is ‘doing’ his ‘English prep’ and has no notion that ethics, theology, and politics are all at stake. It is not a theory they put into his mind, but an assumption, which ten years hence, its origin forgotten and its presence unconscious, will condition him to take one side in a controversy which he has never recognized as a controversy at all. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#indoctrination #education

Your sweet thank-you touches my heart, take my breath away, my only love. This day is only I have got. ↗

— Santosh Kalwar

#inspirational #love #education

How can you pass laws about things that nobody knows?" "They do it all the time," says Hayden. "That's what law is: educated guesses at right and wrong. ↗

— Neal Shusterman

#education

To be prepared against surprise is to be trained. To be prepared for surprise is to be educated. ↗

— James P. Carse

#non-fiction #philosophy #psychology #education

Scoring well on tests is the sort of happy thing that gets the school district the greenbacks they crave. Understanding and appreciating the material are secondary. ↗

— Libba Bray

#knowledge #school #test #education

I've never done acid, finding it hard to go willingly to a place that could be frightening, hellish, and totally beyond my control. A place much like high school. ↗

— Libba Bray

#going-bovine #hell #school #education

In large part, we are teachers precisely because we remember what it was like to be a student. Someone inspired us. Someone influenced us. Or someone hurt us. And we’ve channeled that joy (or pain) into our own unique philosophies on life and learning and we’re always looking for an opportunity to share them—with each other, our students, parents, or in our communities. ↗

— Tucker Elliot

#teachers #education

It's not that I feel that school is a good idea gone wrong, but a wrong idea from the word go. It's a nutty notion that we can have a place where nothing but learning happens, cut off from the rest of life. ↗

— John Holt

#learning #life #school #education