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The bullet that has hit us Muslims today left the gun centuries ago when we let the clergy decide that knowledge and education were not important. ↗

— Nadeem Aslam

#islamism #literature #education

They (teenage boys)don’t really listen to speeches or talks. They absorb incrementally, through hours and hours of observation. ↗

— Rob Lowe

#mentoring #parenthood #training #education

Only one who has learned much can fully appreciate his ignorance. ↗

— Louis L'Amour

#ignorance #knowledge #education

the problem of life was as simple as it was classic. Politics offered no difficulties, for there the moral law was a sure guide. Social perfection was also sure, because human nature worked for Good, and three instruments were all she asked — Suffrage, Common Schools, and Press. On these points doubt was forbidden. Education was divine, and man needed only a correct knowledge of facts to reach perfection: "Were half the power that fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth bestowed on camps and courts, Given to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals nor forts. ↗

— Henry Adams

#progressivism #social-gospel #education

The tourist was the great conservative who hated novelty and adored dirt. ↗

— Henry Adams

#travel #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

We are always falling in love or quarreling, looking for jobs or fearing to lose them, getting ill and recovering, following public affairs. If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work. The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still unfavorable. Favorable conditions never come. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#education #inspiration #knowledge #life #work

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

We must strive for literacy and education that teach us to never quit questioning and probing at the assumptions of the day. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#fighting #hard-work #knowledge #literacy #never-give-up

Teach the ignorant as much as you can. Society is to blame for not giving free education: it is responsible for the darkness it creates. the soul in darkness sins, but the real sinner is he who caused the darkness ↗

— Victor Hugo

#ignorance #responsibillity #sin #education