#taught

I believe that history might be, and ought to be, taught in a new fashion so as to make the meaning of it as a process of evolution intelligible to the young. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

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The child who has been taught to make an accurate elevation, plan, and section of a pint pot has had an admirable training in accuracy of eye and hand. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#accurate #admirable #been #child #elevation

A guy named Charlie Beacham was my first mentor at Ford. He taught me the importance of the dealers, and he rubbed my nose in the retail business. ↗

— Lee Iacocca

#charlie #dealers #first #ford #guy

'Society's Child' was a real hard record to start with. That's all you want is for you to put your first record out and have people screaming at you in the streets. But it taught me right away that what I was doing was valuable and important. ↗

— Janis Ian

#child #doing #first #hard #i

Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. ↗

— Aristotle

#homer #lies #other #poets #skillfully

I was like Gene Kelly, it was called singing in the rain. No seriously, I wasn't really born with a singing voice, but my friends Joe and John taught me how to sing. ↗

— Chris Burke

#called #friends #gene #gene kelly #how

Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that. ↗

— Barbara Bush

#bias #different #different backgrounds #going #hear

Robert Moses wasn't elected to anything. We're taught that in a democracy power comes from being elected. He had more power than anyone, and he held it for 48 years. ↗

— Robert Caro

#anything #being #comes #democracy #elected

You know, we're taught that in a democracy power comes from being elected. ↗

— Robert Caro

#comes #democracy #elected #know #power

My father taught me Basic and rudimentary C, I learned everything else on my own, including studying computational complexity on my own. That's more a function of my age than anything else though - back when I was in school there were hardly any programming classes. ↗

— Bram Cohen

#any #anything #back #basic #classes