The main thing that gives me hope

“The main thing that gives me hope is the media. We have radio, TV, magazines, and books, so we have the possibility of learning from societies that are remote from us, like Somalia. We turn on the TV and see what blew up in Iraq or we see conditions in Afghanistan.”

— Jared Diamond

Author: Jared Diamond
Category: learning
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Even from their infancy we frame them

“Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.”

— Michel de Montaigne

Author: Michel de Montaigne
Category: learning
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Human beings are accustomed to think of

“Human beings are accustomed to think of intellect as the power of having and controlling ideas and of ability to learn as synonymous with ability to have ideas. But learning by having ideas is really one of the rare and isolated events in nature.”

— Edward Thorndike

Author: Edward Thorndike
Category: learning
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