"I received the fundamentals of my education in school, but that was not enough. My real education, the superstructure, the details, the true architecture, I got out of the public library. For an impoverished child whose family could not afford to buy books, the library was the open door to wonder and achievement, and I can never be sufficiently grateful that I had the wit to charge through that door and make the most of it."

-- Isaac Asimov

#Children Quotes #Educational Quotes #Real Quotes

“I'm not a fan of giving a website a simple number like an IQ rating because like people they can vary in all kinds of different ways. So I'd be interested in different organisations labelling websites in different ways.”
“Elijah Wood is interested in people, in life and in music.”
“We accepted education as the means to rise above the limitations that a prejudiced society endeavored to place upon us.”
“Criticism is concerned with evaluation. There may be evaluative principles implicit in this or that form of theory, but theory in and of itself is not prescriptive.”
“The fidelity question is difficult for me. Society has made us believe we're supposed to be monogamous when we're not killer whales, or whatever the monogamous species is.”
“The desert ... may serve better as the backdrop for the problematic relationship between man and the environment. The human struggle, the successes ... both noble and foolish, are readily apparent in the desert. Symbols and relationships seem to arise that stand for the human condition itself.”

Source : Richard Misrach (1987). “Desert Cantos”
“Respect your own creativity and respect the creativity and creative space of other people.”
“They say that your first love never dies. You can put out the flames, but not the fire.”

Source : Song: First Love

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