Scoring well on tests is the sort of happy thing that gets the school district the greenbacks they crave. Understanding and appreciating the material are secondary.
Libba BrayStichwörter: education knowledge school test
for whenever men are right they are not young
E.E. CummingsYou remember only what you want to remember. You know only what your heart allows you to know.
Amy TanStichwörter: knowledge fiction understanding memory remembrance
Knowledge was like candy: you never turned it down, especially if you didn't have to work too hard to get it.
Robert LiparuloIn order to exert influence over people, there were other things that could be used besides love. Knowledge seemed to be an equally strong force, perhaps even stronger. Whoever possessed knowledge not only had power over the changeable passions of people, but also power over their thinking, over their minds, hearts and souls.
Peter PrangeStichwörter: knowledge power possession
Whoever possessed knowledge not only had power over the changeable passions of people, but also power over their thinking, over their minds, hearts and souls.
Peter PrangeStichwörter: knowledge power possession
The Encyclopedia--the advance artillery of reason, the armada of philosophy, the siege engine of the enlightenment...
Peter PrangeStichwörter: knowledge reason philosophy enlightenment
The striving of humanity for knowledge and truth [can] not be suppressed. The growth of the spirit [is]an essential part of Creation; it was planned like the growth of the body, of the plants and animals and people - every living thing that God had created.
Peter PrangeStichwörter: truth knowledge creation growth
Wolf's wool is the best wool, but it cannot be sheared, because the wolf will not comply. With knowledge as with wolves' surliness, the student studies voluntarily, refusing to be less than individual. He "gives his opinion and then rests upon it"; he renders service when there is no reward, and is too reclusive for some things to seem to touch him; not because he has no feeling but because he has so much.
Marianne MooreStichwörter: knowledge wolves student study wolf students wool
Nothing is more beautiful than to know all.
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