Life & Education

A collage of quotes & thoughts...

(...what brings me to LSuC 2013)

There are three most deplorable things in the world : the spoiling of

fine youths through false education, the degradation of fine art through

vulgar admiration, and the utter waste of fine tea through

incompetent manipulation.

-Lichilai

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

-Albert Einstein

Enforced schooling is the most powerful weapon used by

governments and missionaries to instill in tribal children values which are different, often contradictory, to those held by their own societies.

-Stephen Corry

Educate your enemy, don’t kill him, for he is worth more to you alive

than dead

-Che Guevara

Learning can’t take place in pieces of time cut out for the convenience of an institution or in lessons set apart

from the world in which students live. We don’t learn when life is divided up

into sections that have little connection with each other.

-Thomas Moore

Our only teachers are those who tell us to ‘do with me’, and are able to

emit signs to be developed in heterogeneity rather than propose

gestures for us to reproduce.

-Deleuze, 1994

Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a

tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.

-Albert Einstein

I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.

-Eartha Kitt

The greatest hazard of all, losing one’s self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all. No other loss can occur so quietly; any other loss - an arm, a leg, five dollars, a wife, etc. - is sure to be

noticed.

-Soren Kierkegaard

Freedom has become the right to share in the proceeds of one’s own

permanent enslavement.

-Anya Kamenetz (The Capital is Personal)

I don’t want to earn my living; I want to live.

-Oscar Wilde

We should do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living. It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a living. We keep inventing jobs because of this false idea that everybody has to be employed at some kind of drudgery because, according to Malthusian Darwinian theory he must justify his right to exist. So we have inspectors of inspectors and people making instruments for inspectors to inspect inspectors. The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living.

-Buckminster Fuller

Power is exercised through networks, and individuals do not

simply circulate in those networks; they are in a position to both submit to and exercise this power. They are never the inert or consenting targets of power; they are always its relays.

In other words, power passes through individuals. It is not applied

to them.-Michel Foucault

If we have learned anything from people’s capitalism and the laws of biology it is that when “cells” are allowed to thrive, the entire organism thrives. Those top-down attempts to force collectivism have been miserable failures. However, when individuals cooperate together voluntarily, and when they are allowed to gain a fair price for their labor, communities thrive and commonwealth builds.

●-Steve Bhaerman (Original Wealth And People’s Capitalism)

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those that cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn,

unlearn, and relearn.

-Alvin Toffler

The plain fact is that the planet does not need more successful people. But it does desperately need more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers, and lovers of every kind. It needs people who live well in their places. It needs people of moral courage willing to join the fight to make the world habitable and humane. And these qualities have little to do with success as we have defined it.

-David Orr, Ecological Literacy

There will typically be overlap, disagreement, and confusion before there is synergy, cooperation, and

collaboration.

- Dean Allemang / Jim Hendler●(Semantic Web for the Working Ontologist)

If you want to go quickly, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.

-African Proverb

I am not an optimist neither am I a pessimist. I am a very serious

possibilist.

-Hans Rosling