Jacob Rose > Jacob's Quotes

“Fitting in is about assessing a situation and becoming who you need to be to be accepted. Belonging, on the other hand, doesn’t require us to change who we are; it requires us to be who we are.”
― Brené Brown, The Gifts of Imperfection

“The teacher is of course an artist, but being an artist does not mean that he or she can make the profile, can shape the students. What the educator does in teaching is to make it possible for the students to become themselves.”
― Paulo Freire, We Make the Road by Walking: Conversations on Education and Social Change

“language is never neutral”
― Paulo Freire

“Reading is not walking on the words; it's grasping the soul of them.”
― Paulo Freire

“Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.”
― G.K. Chesterton

“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
― William Butler Yeats

“Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.”
― Malcolm X

“Eragon looked back at him, confused. "I don't understand."
"Of course you don't," said Brom impatiently. "That's why I'm teaching you and not the other way around.”
― Christopher Paolini, Eragon