#vent

Marco reported that homeless children [in Kublai Kahn's city of Daidu] were cared for and educated. While he says little about the system of education in China, we know from records of the time that Kublai Khan created thousands of public schools to provide a basic education for all children, including those of poor peasants. Until then, only the wealthy were literate. Kublai's bid at 'universal education' had never been attempted by any country on Earth. In the western world, nearly 500 years would pass before governments began to take responsibility for the public education of all children. ↗

— Russell Freedman

#education

He who is jealous, is never jealous of what you see, with what is imagined is enough. ↗

— Jacinto Benavente

#jealousy #imagination

Democracies are indeed slow to make war, but once embarked upon a martial venture are equally slow to make peace and reluctant to make a tolerable, rather than a vindictive, peace. ↗

— Reinhold Niebuhr

#embarked #equally #indeed #make #martial

...our species is one, and each of the individuals who compose it are entitled to equal moral consideration. ↗

— Michael Ignatieff

#human-rights #politics #equality

Nowadays, her life is more like a newspaper: aimless, up-to-date and full of meaningless events ↗

— Michel Faber

#life #dating

The adrenaline and stress of an adventure are better than a thousand peaceful days. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#inspiration #life-experience #experience

This is one of the goals of the Jewish way of living: to experience commonplace deeds as spiritual adventures, to feel the hidden love and wisdom in all things. ↗

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

#love #wisdom #experience

Previous experience had taught me that any expedition marches on its stomach. ↗

— Tahir Shah

#endurance #expedition #food #hunger #experience

Adventure is allowing the unexpected to happen to you. Exploration is experiencing what you have not experienced before. How can there be any adventure, any exploration, if you let somebody else - above all, a travel bureau - arrange everything before-hand? ↗

— Richard Aldington

#experience #exploration #spontaneity #travel #wanderlust

If you'll excuse a brief history lesson: most people didn't experience 'the sixties' until the seventies. Which meant, logically, that most people in the sixties were still experiencing the fifties--or, in my case, bits of both decades side by side. Which made things rather confusing. ↗

— Julian Barnes

#seventies #sixties #experience