#education

Without knowing it, I had stumbled upon one of the basic postulates of homeschooling: Anything you do with a home-schooled child outside the home can be described as a "field trip", thus rendering whatever activity you pursue a legitimate educational experience. ↗

— Quinn Cummings

#education

However, he did say that a state that does not educate and train women is like a man who only trains his right arm. ↗

— Jostein Gaarder

#women #women-s-rights #education

Things somehow seem more real and vivid when one can apply somebody else's ready-made phrase about them (...) you bring them out triumphantly, and feel you've clinched the argument with the mere magical sound of them. That's what comes of the higher education. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#quotes #education

So you see, you have nothing to be afraid of." Oh no, thought Otto, just squads of hired goons wandering around with experimental energy weapons. Nothing to be afraid of at all. ↗

— Mark Walden

#contessa #humor #otto #weapons #education

I hope you don't snore," Otto said, laughing. "Like a chainsaw, my friend, like a chainsaw," Wing replied, grinning. ↗

— Mark Walden

#otto #snore #wing #education

Our life stories are largely constructed and without mindfulness can prove destructive. ↗

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

#behaviour #belief-systems #child-development #conditioning #education-system

Too often, it seems to me, in missionary and educational work among underdeveloped races, people yield to the temptation of doing that which was done a hundred years before, or is being done in other communities a thousand miles away. The temptation often is to run each individual through a certain educational mould, regardless of the condition of the subject or the end to be accomplished. ↗

— Booker T. Washington

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Everyone drank to popular education and to the irrigation of Uzbekistan. ↗

— Ilya Ilf

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Sometimes a little song is sweet to hear, even if the orchestra is more accomplished ↗

— Esmé Raji Codell

#education

Odd how we focus on studying wars at at school to form our 'education'. No wonder we know so little about making and forging peace as adults. ↗

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

#learning #peace #peacemaking #rasheed-ogunlaru-quote #studying