"From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings." Helen Hayes
True. Even if your parents are the smartest and most educated in the world, nobody knows everything. But we can learn so much from books that it will almost make us fly.
True. Even if your parents are the smartest and most educated in the world, nobody knows everything. But we can learn so much from books that it will almost make us fly.
"If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them." George Orwell
Even truer. As we can always see when there have been elections.
"Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something." Plato
Another true statement. Worst are those who think they know everything but really know nothing. They will shout loudest. And those who shout loudest are usually in the wrong.
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I realize how important it is to train young people how to question, how to seek out true information, how to think.
ReplyDeleteVery true, Deb. That's the only reason why people can be about good education, they are afraid that they might understand them. I just read that in Finland they teach children how to recognize fake news. Would be a great subject everywhere.
DeleteLove that Hayes quote about books giving you wings!
ReplyDeleteThey do indeed, Lark. Where would we be without books?
DeleteAll of these are very timely. I especially love the first one.
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