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Once you teach people to say what they do not understand, it is easy enough to get them to say anything you like. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#education

Everybody thinks they'll never get married at your age. You think you can go on all your life being single, but you suddenly find out that you can't. ↗

— Alan Sillitoe

#being #everybody #find #get #get married

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

— Terry Eagleton

#education #humanities #university #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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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

The child, unhampered, does not waste time. ↗

— Caroline Pratt

#education #progressive-education #school #education

Without action, a vision is just a piece of paper. In education, we have lots of paper. ↗

— William Sterrett

#leadership #paper #vision #education

God is a character, a real and consistent being, or He is nothing. If God did a miracle He would deny His own nature and the universe would simply blow up, vanish, become nothing. ↗

— Joyce Cary

#being #blow #character #consistent #deny

A democratic civilization will save itself only if it makes the language of the image into a stimulus for critical reflection — not an invitation for hypnosis. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#images #mass-media #reflection #symbols #television

He wastes his time over his writing, trying to accomplish what geniuses and rare men with college educations sometimes accomplish. ↗

— Jack London

#intelligence #pessimism #real #writers #writing