“Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.” -Joseph Stalin, 1953 Simpson, J. B. (1964). Contemporary quotations. New York : Crowell, [1964]. Image: Youth Theatres are a weapon of Communist education. 1933 by kitchener.lord Continue reading Wednesday Wisdom
“The freedom of any society varies proportionately with the volume of its laughter” –Rosenberg, M. S. (1978).(94). Quotations for the New Age. Secaucus, N.J: Citadel Press. Image: Laughter by David Bergin Continue reading Wednesday Wisdom
“Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.” -Jacques Barzun, 1955 Simpson, J. B. (1964). Contemporary quotations. New York : Crowell, [1964]. Image: tradition by Caffeinatrix Continue reading Wednesday Wisdom
“Opinion in goodmen is but knowledge in the making.” -In Partridge, E. (1960). (103) A first book of quotations. London: Hamish Hamilton. Image: Opinion by Transformer18 Continue reading Wednesday Wisdom
“Particularly in Western, late capitalist societies (where the decoration, ornamentation, and scarification of the body have lost much meaning for the individual in the existential sense of “Which people do I belong to? What is the meaning of my life?” and have instead become commoditized by the media, corporations, and even medicine in the name … Continue reading Wednesday Wisdom
“We are here and it is now. Further than that , all human knowledge is moonshine.” —H.L. Mencken Metcalf, F. (1987). The Penguin dictionary of modern humorous quotations. London: Penguin Books. Image: Moonshine by Angus MacRae Continue reading Wednesday Wisdom
“Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.” —Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams Davidoff, H. (1942). The pocket book of quotations. New York: Pocket Books. Image: ignorance by McBeth Continue reading Wednesday Wisdom
“I am sufficiently proud of my knowing to be modest about my not knowing everything” —Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita, 1995 Metcalf, F. (1987). The Penguin dictionary of modern humorous quotations. London: Penguin Books Image: House of Knowledge Variation2 by Adrien Sifre Continue reading Wednesday Wisdom
” A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.” —Alexander Pope, Essay on Criticism. ii Davidoff, H. (1942). The pocket book of quotations. New York: Pocket Books. Image: Fountain by Riccardo Cuppini Continue reading Wednesday Wisdom
“Brevity is the sister of talent.” —Anton Chekhov, letter to Alexander Chekhov, 11 April 1889 Ratcliffe, S. (2012). Oxford essential quotations. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Image: Leelanau Tarts (fo-lomo) by Andrew McFarlane Continue reading Wednesday Wisdom
