#u

Granma said when you come on something good, first thing to do is share it with whoever you can find; that way, the good spreads out where no telling it will go. Which is right. ↗

— Forrest Carter

#education

Free curiosity has greater power to stimulate learning than rigorous coercion. Nevertheless, the free ranging flux of curiosity is channeled by discipline under Your Law. ↗

— Augustine of Hippo

#curiosity #discipline #education #education

Your educators can only be your liberators. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#philosophy #schopenhauer-as-educator #education

Some people get an education without going to college. The rest get it after they get out. ↗

— Mark Twain

#education #education

However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship. ↗

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#however #less #love #may #rare

People who cannot put strings of sentences together in good order cannot think. An educational system that does not teach the technology of writing is preventing thought. ↗

— Richard Mitchell

#logic #thought #education

...even though I was getting better education at home than any of the kids in Toyah, I'd need to go to finishing school when I was thirteen, both to acquire social graces and to earn a diploma. Because in this world, Dad said, it's not enough to have a fine education. You need a piece of paper to prove you go it. ↗

— Jeannette Walls

#sarcasm #education

An English writer telephoned me from London, asking questions. One was, ‘What’s your alma mater?’ I told him, ‘Books. ↗

— Malcolm X

#books #education #education

Education may well be, as of right, the instrument whereby every individual, in a society like our own, can gain access to any kind of discourse. But we well know that in its distribution, in what it permits and in what it prevents, it follows the well-trodden battle-lines of social conflict. Every educational system is a political means of maintaining or of modifying the appropriation of discourse, with the knowledge and the powers it carries with it. ↗

— Michel Foucault

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The only thing that surprises me is the characterization of teachers as lazy and greedy. Only someone with very little understanding of what teaching requires would say such a thing. ↗

— Taylor Mali

#teachers #education