There are all kinds of ignorance in the world. Education, learning to read and write, doesn't necessarily give us knowledge. We have to learn to use our minds to see what is really happening.
Linda LeamingTag: education learning ignorance
But little Carlos's most important defense was not his good punch but rather the beginnings of a great education.
Gina CapaldiTag: education prejudice adversity
Everything can be explained to the people, on the single condition that you want them to understand.
Frantz FanonTag: politics education citizenship development
A plongeur is a slave, and a wasted slave, doing stupid and largely unnecessary work. He is kept at work, ultimately, because of a vague feeling that he would be dangerous if he had leisure. And educated people, who should be on his side, acquiesce in the process, because they know nothing about him and consequently are afraid of him.
George OrwellTag: fear education leisure class poverty labor slavery george-orwell mob down-and-out-in-paris-and-london hierarchy
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 BrayTag: education knowledge school test
I've never done acid, finding it hard to go willingly to a place that could be frightening, hellish, and totally beyond my control. A place much like high school.
Libba BrayTag: education school hell going-bovine
To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.
John BurroughsWelcome to Hartford. The poorest city in the wealthiest state in the richest country on earth.
Susan EatonTag: education poverty school-reform
We get schooled by the people around us, and it stays inside us deep.
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There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life:
The Lord of the Rings
and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs."
[Kung Fu Monkey -- Ephemera, blog post, March 19, 2009]
Tag: reading books education fantasy children-s-literature atlas-shrugged ayn-rand lord-of-the-rings life-changing real-world jrr-tolkien
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