School is about two parts ABCs to fifty parts Where Do I Stand in the Great Pecking Order of Humankind. —Barbara Kingsolver More about this quote Tags: learning schooling sociology Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You must adjust. … This is the legend imprinted in every schoolbook, the invisible message on every blackboard. Our schools have become vast factories for the manufacture of robots. —Robert Lindner More about this quote Tags: education schooling standardization robots Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
My schooling did me a great deal of harm and no good whatever; it was simply dragging a child's soul through the dirt. —George Bernard Shaw More about this quote Tags: learning soul children schooling harm Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them. —Isaac Asimov More about this quote Tags: fear computers Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted. —James Branch Cabell More about this quote Tags: memory morality resistance Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Relationships are never static. They have to evolve over time as the individuals in them change. —Sherryl Woods in Driftwood Cottage More about this quote Tags: relationships change Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
He who stops being better stops being good. —Oliver Cromwell More about this quote Tags: good aspiration better Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul. —Saint Teresa of Avila More about this quote Tags: love life soul Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I liked things better when I didn't understand them. —Bill Watterson More about this quote Tags: understanding ignorance knowledge Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable. —Raymond Chandler More about this quote Tags: writing mystery novels publishing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Politics is the systematic organization of hatreds. —Henry Adams More about this quote Tags: politics hatred Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I hope you do not let anyone else’s expectations direct the course of your life. —Julianne Donaldson in Edenbrooke More about this quote Tags: life others expectatations Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It's hard to take over the world when you sleep 20 hours a day. —Darby Conley More about this quote Tags: ambition laziness sleep accomplishement Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest. —Hermann Hesse More about this quote Tags: people perception courage Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics. —Benjamin Disraeli More about this quote Tags: knowledge facts lies statistics Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email