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The only education in grief that any of us ever gets is a crash course. Until Caroline had died I had belonged to that other world, the place of innocence, and linear expectations, where I thught grief was a simple, wrenching realm of sadness and longing that graduallu receded. What that definition left out was the body blow that loss inflicts, as well as the temporary madness, and a range of less straightforward emotions shocking in their intensity. ↗

— Gail Caldwell

#grief #death

To reap a return in ten years, plant trees. To reap a return in 100, cultivate the people. ↗

— Hồ Chí Minh

#growth #investment #progress #society #education

All the United States, it is a society that is split like to the bottom, that had very poor people in the country that is one of the wealthiest countries. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#countries #country #had #like #people

An open mind, in questions that are not ultimate, is useful. But an open mind about the ultimate foundations either of Theoretical or of Practical Reason is idiocy. If a man's mind is open on these things, let his mouth at least be shut. He can say nothing to the purpose. Outside the Tao there is no ground for criticizing either the Tao or anything else. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#culture #education #ethics #foundations #justice

Nevertheless, (Jefferson) believed that the habit of skepticism is an essential prerequisite for responsible citizenship. He argued that the cost of education is trivial compared to the cost of ignorance, of leaving government to the wolves. He taught that the country is safe only when the people rule. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#ignorance #skepticism #thomas-jefferson #education

What we want to see is the child in pursuit of the knowledge not the knowledge in pursuit of the child. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#knowledge #youth #education

...it's not enough to fight for a better world; we also have to live lives worth fighting for. ↗

— Eric Greitens

#education

Really sucked the red off of all my candy. ↗

— Faith Hunter

#faith

Faith: a device of the mind, fed by the soul, that functions like crutches to a man in a wheelchair. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#faith

Education does not take place when you learn something you did not know before. Education is your ability to use what you have learned to be better today than you were yesterday. ↗

— Iyanla Vanzant

#growth #improvement #education