#activity

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

#attain #because #being #free #highest

I'm worried that students will take their obedient place in society and look to become successful cogs in the wheel - let the wheel spin them around as it wants without taking a look at what they're doing. I'm concerned that students not become passive acceptors of the official doctrine that's handed down to them from the White House, the media, textbooks, teachers and preachers. ↗

— Howard Zinn

#complacency #ethics #independence #politics #proactivity

If the quickness of the mind and the fluency of the tongue are too punctilious and sharp, moderate them in your activity and rest. ↗

— Xun Zi

#fluency #mind #moderate #quickness #rest

If the Liberals' law is passed, will sex education in the schools, including elementary grades, include the same portrayals of sexual activity which presently exist in heterosexual instruction? Will there be the same presentation of homosexual activity? Of course there will. ↗

— Stockwell Day

#course #education #elementary #exist #grades

I did help to set up an undergraduate course in medicinal chemistry and made progress in modelling and analysing pharmacological activity at the tissue level, my new passion. ↗

— James W. Black

#analysing #chemistry #course #did #help

No real blood flows in the veins of the knowing subject constructed by Locke, Hume, and Kant, but rather the diluted extract of reason as a mere activity of thought. ↗

— Wilhelm Dilthey

#blood #constructed #diluted #extract #flows

The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone. ↗

— William J. H. Boetcker

#backbone #individual #man #men #mere

I'd been doing projects outdoors for the public. I made pigeons eat geometry by putting bread out in rhomboids and triangles. I don't know if this activity made sense, but the work was available. ↗

— Jenny Holzer

#available #been #bread #doing #eat

Science is a self-sufficient activity. ↗

— Jonathan Miller

#science #self-sufficient

The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon. ↗

— Maria Montessori

#capacity #derive #desire #feel #her