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I hope you all had a wonderful weekend. Monday is here again, and it's time for another quote or two for your pondering: a few fun ones and some more thoughtful ones on education and teachers. I hope somewhere along your path you had teachers and mentors who inspired a love of learning and awakened an intellectual curiosity to keep you on that path of discovery. Thank you to all the teachers and mentors in life.
Happy Monday, digital neighbors!
"The chief object of education is not to learn things; nay, the chief object of education is to unlearn things." — G. K. Chesterton
"Universities are full of knowledge; the freshmen bring a little in and the seniors take none away, and knowledge accumulates." — Academic saying (often attributed to A. Lawrence Lowell, former president of Harvard)
"Life is amazing; and the teacher had better prepare himself to be a medium for that amazement." — Edward Blishen
"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." — Henry Adams
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Today marks the three hundred and thirtieth birthday of the Frenchman François-Marie Arouet, better known by his nom de plume, Voltaire (1694-1778).
Born into a bourgeois family during the reign of Louis XIV, the “Sun King” (r. 1643-1715), Voltaire suffered tragedy at a young age when his mother died. Never close with his father or brother, Voltaire exhibited a rebellious attitude toward authority from his youth. His brilliant mind was fostered in the care of the Society of Jesus, who introduced him to the joys of literature and theater. Despite his later criticisms against the Church, Voltaire, throughout his life, fondly recalled his dedicated Jesuit teachers.
Although he spent time as a civil servant in the French embassy to the Hague, Voltaire’s main love was writing—an endeavor where he excelled in various genres, including poetry, which led to his appointment as the royal court poet for King Louis XV. Widely recognized as one of the greatest French writers, and even hyperbolically referred to by ...
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2026 Coffee Talk with the ADD Irregulars
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