#quip

The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education. ↗

— John Updike

#children #decided #education #equipped #fathers

In department stores, so much kitchen equipment is bought indiscriminately by people who just come in for men's underwear. ↗

— Julia Child

#come #department #department stores #equipment #indiscriminately

We've had it very clear to the Bosnians that our obligation to equip and train their forces is completely conditional on the foreign forces being gone. ↗

— Warren Christopher

#clear #completely #conditional #equip #forces

Ideally, what should be said to every child, repeatedly, throughout his or her school life is something like this: 'You are in the process of being indoctrinated. We have not yet evolved a system of education that is not a system of indoctrination. We are sorry, but it is the best we can do. What you are being taught here is an amalgam of current prejudice and the choices of this particular culture. The slightest look at history will show how impermanent these must be. You are being taught by people who have been able to accommodate themselves to a regime of thought laid down by their predecessors. It is a self-perpetuating system. Those of you who are more robust and individual than others will be encouraged to leave and find ways of educating yourself — educating your own judgements. Those that stay must remember, always, and all the time, that they are being moulded and patterned to fit into the narrow and particular needs of this particular society. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#education #feminism #knowledge-power #quip #school

We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving. ↗

— Cyril Connolly

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We had access to too much money, too much equipment, and little by little, we went insane. ↗

— Francis Ford Coppola

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Those who prepared for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themselves at the expense of joy. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#emergencies #equip #expense #joy #life

The only thing that I was equipped for with my very mediocre college Arts degree was to get a job in teaching. ↗

— Helen Garner

#college #degree #equipped #get #i

Language for me narrates the pictures in my mind. When I work on designing livestock equipment I can test run that equipment in my head like 3-D virtual reality. In fact, when I was in college I used to think that everybody was able to do that. ↗

— Temple Grandin

#college #designing #equipment #everybody #fact

Evolution has ensured that our brains just aren't equipped to visualise 11 dimensions directly. However, from a purely mathematical point of view it's just as easy to think in 11 dimensions, as it is to think in three or four. ↗

— Stephen Hawking

#dimensions #directly #easy #ensured #equipped