#ow

Once a day, especially in the early years of life and study, call yourselves to an account what new ideas, what new proposition or truth you have gained, what further confirmation of known truths, and what advances you have made in any part of knowledge. ↗

— Isaac Watts

#journaling #knowledge #reflection #education

I believe we inherit a great river of knowledge, a flow of patterns coming from many sources. The information that comes from deep in the evolutionary past we call genetics. The information passed along from hundreds of years ago we call culture. The information passed along from decades ago we call family, and the information offered months ago we call education. But it is all information that flows through us. The brain is adapted to the river of knowledge and exists only as a creature in that river. Our thoughts are profoundly molded by this long historic flow, and none of us exists, self-made, in isolation from it. ↗

— David Brooks

#information #knowledge #river #education

I suppose it was a dream that lasted really about fifty years. By the time universal education had begun to work properly, say 1925, and the time the first teachers started to hold back information, say 1975. So a fifty-year dream." "I think what's happened is that because they themselves know less than their predecessors, innovators and leaders today have remade the world in their own image. Spellchecks. Search engines. They've remodeled the world so that ignorance is not really a disadvantage. And I should think that increasingly they'll carry on reshaping the world to accommodate a net loss of knowledge. ↗

— Sebastian Faulks

#knowledge #dreams

There is no shame in not knowing your history, the shame lies in not finding out. ↗

— Habeeb Akande

#history #knowledge #shame #education

(Marlowe's) Faustus stubbornly reverts to his atheistic beliefs and continues his elementary pagan re-education ~ the inferno to him is a 'place' invented by men. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#faust #faust-legend #faustian #faustus #hell

Wenn [der Lehrer] wirklich weise ist, fordert er euch nicht auf, ins Haus seiner Weisheit einzutreten, sondern führt euch an die Schwelle eures eigenen Geistes. ↗

— Kahlil Gibran

#knowledge #wisdom #education

Niemand kann euch etwas eröffnen, das nicht schon im Dämmern eures Wissens schlummert. ↗

— Kahlil Gibran

#knowledge #education

History is important because it teaches us about the past. And bylearning about the past, you come to understand the present, so that you may make educated decisions about the future. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#mead #teacher-s-speech #teachers-know-best #twillinger #education

You’re in my every breath and every thought, intertwined so deep inside me that love’s not a strong enough word—you have my devotion, your name branded on my soul, my wolf yours to command. A hundred years? It’ll never be enough. I want eternity. ↗

— Nalini Singh

#kiss-of-snow #love #nalini-singh #strong

Knowledge is Power, Power provides Information; Information leads to Education, Education breeds Wisdom; Wisdom is Liberation. People are not liberated because of lack of knowledge. ↗

— Israelmore Ayivor

#education #ignorance #ignorant-people #information #information-is-liberation