46 ratings (4.17 avg)
1 review

Bethany Carter

Bethany’s Bookshelves

to-read‎ (787)
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 (29)
novels‎ (28)
science‎ (21)
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)

Stats | More…

“Education either functions as an instrument which is used to facilitate integration of the younger generation into the logic of the present system and bring about conformity or it becomes the practice of freedom, the means by which men and women deal critically and creatively with reality and discover how to participate in the transformation of their world.”
― Richard Shaull, Pedagogy of the Oppressed

tags: education

558 likes

“What a school thinks about its library is a measure of what it feels about education.”
― Harold Howe

tags: education, libraries, library, school

370 likes

“To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul.”
― Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

tags: education, soul

1019 likes

“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

2272 likes

“When you take the time to actually listen, with humility, to what people have to say, it's amazing what you can learn. Especially if the people who are doing the talking also happen to be children.”
― Greg Mortenson, Stones Into Schools: Promoting Peace With Books, Not Bombs, in Afghanistan and Pakistan

tags: children, communication, education, parenting

202 likes

More of Bethany’s quotes…