
“If you teach a man anything, he will never learn.”
“If you teach a man anything, he will never learn.”
“The lessons one learns at school are not always the ones the school thinks it's teaching.”
Source: Joseph Anton: A Memoir
Source: Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling (1992), p. 19
“and taught him the only thing he had to learn about love: that nobody teaches life anything.”
Source: Love in the Time of Cholera
“I don’t think parents should be telling schools what they should teach.”
Source: Gubernatorial Debate Between Terry McAuliffe and Glenn Youngkin in Alexandria, Virginia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiH2ipjtVxw (Sept. 28, 2021)
“I've never worked so hard for anything in my life as I have for you.”
Source: Reflected in You
On his being asked Where was he born?
Jeet Thayil on why 'Where are you from?' is a complicated question for all of us