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Aldo Leopold quotes about education

American Ecologist January 11, 1887 – April 21, 1948

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One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds. Much of the damage inflicted on land is quite invisible to laymen. An ecologist must either harden his shell and make believe that the consequences of science are none of his business, or he must be the doctor who sees the marks of death in a community that believes itself well and does not want to be told otherwise. Aldo Leopold
Tell me of what plant-birthday a man takes notice, and I shall tell you a good deal about his vocation, his hobbies, his hay fever, and the general level of his ecological education. Aldo Leopold
Aldo Leopold quote: "One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one..."
One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds. Aldo Leopold
The problem, then, is how to bring about a striving for harmony with land among a people many of whom have forgotten there is any such thing as land, among whom education and culture have become almost synonymous with landlessness. This is the problem of conservation education. Aldo Leopold
Aldo Leopold quote: "Is education possibly a process of trading awareness for..."
Is education possibly a process of trading awareness for things of lesser worth? Aldo Leopold

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