Posted: 20 March 2013 | 226110 notes | education
barackobama:

Meanwhile: Nearly every Senate Republican voted today to double interest rates on federal college loans for more than 7 million students.

barackobama:

Meanwhile: Nearly every Senate Republican voted today to double interest rates on federal college loans for more than 7 million students.

Posted: 9 May 2012 | 3195 notes | Politics | education | student loans

What grades determine:

callikesthings:

butitmight:

  • Your ability to memorize mostly useless things
  • Your ability to regurgitate information in the way others want you to
  • Your ability to understand what adults want from you and give it to them
  • Your tolerance for working on tasks you don’t find useful because others want you to do them or believe them to be helpful/socially acceptable

What grades do NOT determine:

  • Your intelligence
  • Your creativity
  • Your emotional capabilities
  • Your likeliness to succeed
  • Whether you’re a good person

If I ever go back to school, I could have this plastered above the computer at all times.

(via caliguloves)

Posted: 6 April 2012 | 114920 notes | social justice | grades | education | school system

College Students (and a 4-Year-Old) Pepper Sprayed Protesting Tuition Hike

wilwheaton:

Police who do this are dangerously out of control, and need to be held accountable for their brutality.

Posted: 4 April 2012 | 246 notes | Protests | College | Education | Tuition
betterbooktitles:

Marquis de Sade: The 120 Days of Sodom
Reader Submission: Title and Redesign by Robert N. Lee.

betterbooktitles:

Marquis de Sade: The 120 Days of Sodom

Reader Submission: Title and Redesign by Robert N. Lee.

75 percent of Japanese women own vibrators. The global average is 47 percent.

(Source: listverse.com, via ohyeahfacts)

Posted: 15 May 2011 | 514 notes | education | sex
greggorey:

Richard Dawkin’s new children’s book, The Magic of Reality.

Dave McKean? Oh damn, do want.

greggorey:

Richard Dawkin’s new children’s book, The Magic of Reality.

Dave McKean? Oh damn, do want.

(via atheismfuckyeah)