Bethany Carter

Bethany’s Bookshelves

to-read‎ (792)
currently-reading‎ (0)
read‎ (50)
did-not-finish‎ (0)
to-remember‎ (17)
economics‎ (107)
history‎ (57)
race‎ (44)
psychology‎ (39)
learning-information‎ (38)
politics‎ (37)
political-philosphy‎ (31)

development‎ (30)
novels‎ (29)
science‎ (22)
philosophy‎ (20)
poverty-social-policy‎ (16)
religion‎ (16)
change‎ (12)
mental-health‎ (12)
radicalization-disinformation‎ (12)
policy‎ (11)
self-help‎ (11)
social-justice-organizing‎ (11)

women‎ (11)
gender-sex‎ (8)
money‎ (7)
business‎ (6)
fantasy‎ (6)
palestine‎ (6)
read-next‎ (6)
academia‎ (5)
education‎ (5)
housing‎ (5)
leadership‎ (5)
mindfulness-meditation‎ (5)

next-up‎ (5)
children-s‎ (4)
environment‎ (4)
polarization‎ (4)
abortion‎ (3)
immigration‎ (3)
management‎ (2)
relationships‎ (2)
unfinished‎ (2)
adhd‎ (1)
african-literature-history‎ (1)
animal-rights‎ (1)

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Bethany’s Quotes

“I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve (or save) the world and a desire to enjoy (or savor) the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.”
― E. B. White

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“The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall know, what he shall do. It is chosen and foreordained and he only holds the key to his own secret.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: education, initiative, self-education

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“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”
― Isaac Asimov

tags: anti-intellectualism, cult, culture, democracy, ignorance, intellectual, political, politics, united-states, willful-ignorance

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“The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned. I’m a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.”
― Antonio Gramsci

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