#so

Why has pachinko swept Japan? It can hardly be the excitement of gambling, since the risks and rewards are so small. During the hours spent in front of a pachinko machine, there is an almost total lack of stimulation other than the occasional rush of ball bearings. There is no thought, no movement; you have no control over the flow of balls, apart from holding a little lever which shoots them up to the top of the machine; you sit there enveloped in a cloud of heavy cigarette smoke, semi-dazed by the racket of millions of ball bearings falling through machines around you. Pachinko verges on sensory deprivation. It is the ultimate mental numbing, the final victory of the educational system." - Lost Japan, Eng. vers., 1996 ↗

— Alex Kerr

#education #educational-system #japan #pachinko #sensory-deprivation

From my great-grandfather: not to have attended schools for the public; to have had good teachers at home, and to realize that this is the sort of thing on which one should spend lavishly. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#education-system #homeschooling #philosophy #education

The most privileged position, in life as in society, is that of an educated soldier. Rough warriors, at any rate, remain true to their character, and as great strength is usually the cover for good nature, we get on with them at need. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#education

One of our greatest challenges is to handle Winning without arrogance, being educated without being condescending and having compassion without developing indifference ↗

— Kalon Jackson

#education

Let education kindle only those which are truly beneficial to the human species; let it favour those alone which are really necessary to the maintenance of society. The passions of man are dangerous, only because every thing conspires to give them an evil direction. ↗

— Paul Henri Thiry d'Holbach

#nature-of-men #philosophy #education

Emma: You can demand that Pettibone retain my services, but you cannot make similar demands of the parents of the students. They will not entrust the education of their daughters to a woman who has removed her clothing for an artist, no matter how exalted that artist may be. Pettibone would become a school without students. No that avenue is closed to me now. Nicholas: Women disrobe for men other than their husbands every day. Emma: But they are not on exhibition in the Royal Academy. Nicholas: what of extenuating circumstances? Emma: You make no sense ↗

— Donna MacMeans

#humor #romance #society #education

For you not to look scandalous, act educated. ↗

— Jerson Armecin

#education

Lo básico es dejar amplio margen para el aprendizaje ↗

— Friedrich A. von Hayek

#educational-system #society #world #education

Teaching the layperson (divulgare) is not distorting (tergiversare) the subject, but educating the public; and it is our duty as scientists to educate without distorting the essence of the scientific knowledge attained by humanity. The future of our society depends upon this premise. ↗

— Felix Alba-Juez

#science #education

When I pictured myself, it was always like just an outline in a colouring book, with the inside not yet completed. ↗

— Sarah Dessen

#someone-like-you #true #inspirational