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The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn, or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars." ~Author Jack Kerouac
School is the first impression children get of organized society. Like most first impressions it is the lasting one. Life is dull and stupid, and only Coke provides relief. And other products, too, of course.
~John Taylor Gatto
If you think in seasons, plant cereals. If you think in decades, plant
trees. If you think in centuries, educate your children.~Chinese Proverb
I have argued that every human being is born with an innate drive to experience altered states of consciousness periodically -- in particular to learn how to get away from ordinary ego-centered consciousness. I have also explained my intuition that this drive is a most important factor in our evolution, both as individuals and as a species. Nonordinary experiences are vital to us because they are expressions of our unconscious minds, and the integration of conscious and unconscious experience is the key to life, health, and spiritual development, and fullest use of our nervous systems. - Andrew Weil, M.D.
It is the duty of a citizen in a free country not to fit into society, but
to make society.
~John Holt
"Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some
blunders and absurdities no doubt have crept in; forget them as soon as you
can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a
spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense. This day is all that is good
and fair. It is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment
on yesterdays."
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The true test of character is not how much we know how to do, but how we
behave when we don't know what to do." ~John Holt
"You have to find something that you love enough to be able to take risks,
jump over the hurdles and break through the brick walls that are always
going to be placed in front of you. If you don't have that kind of feeling
for what it is you're doing, you'll stop at the first giant hurdle." ~
George Lucas
"Cultivate your garden... Do not depend upon teachers to educate you ...
follow your own bent, pursue your curiosity bravely, express yourself, make
your own harmony... In the end, education, like happiness, is individual,
and must come to us from life and from ourselves. There is no way; each
pilgrim must make his own path. "Happiness," said Chamfort, "is not easily
won; it is hard to find it in ourselves, and impossible to find it
elsewhere." " ~Will Durant
The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
--Bernard Russell
"I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education.
They seem to me to be built upon the supposition that every child is a kind
of idiot who must be taught to think. Whereas, if the child is left to
himself, he will think more and better, if less showily. Let him go and come
freely, let him touch real things and combine his impressions for himself,
instead of sitting indoors at a little round table, while a sweet-voiced
teacher suggests that he build a stone wall with his wooden blocks, or make
a rainbow out of strips of coloured paper, or plant straw trees in bead
flower-pots. Such teaching fills the mind with artificial associations that
must be got rid of, before the child can develop independent ideas out of
actual experience."
~Anne Sullivan
People only see what they are prepared to see.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart
enought to know they were impossible.
~Doug Larson
Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish
they are after.
~Henry David Thoreau
It takes a village idiot to believe that a family needs instruction from the
government to raise a child.
~Unknown
I suppose it is because nearly all children go to school nowadays and have
things arranged for them that they seem so forlornly unable to produce their
own ideas.
~Agatha Christie
The finger pointing at the moon is not the moon.
~Zen proverb
"What makes people smart, curious, alert, observant, competent, confident, resourceful, persistent - in the broadest and best sense, intelligent- is not having access to more and more learning places, resources, and specialists, but being able in their lives to do a wide variety of interesting things that matter, things that challenge their ingenuity, skill, and judgement, and that make an obvious difference in their lives and the lives of people around them."
~John Holt~ Teach Your Own
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