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The humanities should constitute the core of any university worth the name. ↗

— Terry Eagleton

#education #humanities #university #education

Giving importance to what we think because we thought it, taking our own selves not only (to quote the Greek philosopher) as the measure of all things but as their norm or standard, we create in ourselves, if not an interpretation, at least a criticism of the universe, which we don't even know and therefore cannot criticize. The giddiest, most weak-minded of us then promote that criticism to an interpretation that's superimposed, like a hallucination; induced rather than deduced. It's a hallucination in the strict sense, being an illusion based on something only dimly seen. ↗

— Fernando Pessoa

#criticism #opinions #philosophy #thought #education

In practice, such trifles as contradictions in principle are easily set aside; the faculty of ignoring them makes the practical man. ↗

— Henry Adams

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I wanted that future officer to weigh decisions with a supple mind and to be comfortable with nuance and uncertainty. ↗

— Craig M. Mullaney

#dadt #history #military #philosophy #politics

It required all his delicate Epicurean education to prevent his doing something about it; he had to repeat over to himself his favorite notions: that the injustice and unhappiness in the world is a constant; that the theory of progress is a delusion; that the poor, never having known happiness, are insensible to misfortune. Like all the rich he could not bring himself to believe that the poor (look at their houses, look at their clothes) could really suffer. Like all the cultivated he believed that only the widely read could be said to know that they were unhappy. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

#insensitivity #poverty #education

There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#happiness #inspirational #friendship

Use technology with me, I’ll participate, I’ll transfer, I’ll employ, and I’ll create. ↗

— Tony Erben Ruth Ban Martha Castaneda

#students #teaching #technology #education

Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then...do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen. ↗

— Lee Iacocca

#success #education

When the atmosphere encourages learning, the learning is inevitable. ↗

— Elizabeth Foss

#education #homeschooling #education

Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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