“Wir sollten die Leute in die Schule zurückschicken, damit sie über die Dinge nachdenken, über die sie nachdachten, bis jemand daherkam und ihnen sagte, sie müssten sich einen Lebensunterhalt verdienen.
- Richard Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983)”
Source: Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World
“The Conveyor Belt
Conceived, carried, cut out, torn, born,
slapped, named, numbered,
needled, drugged, stodged, stuffed,
shod, shorn, collared, tied, capped,
herded, classed, seated, schooled,
brought up, put down, labelled a sinner,
smacked, caned, loved, deceived, cuffed,
suited, sorted, thwarted,
broken, tamed, healed, polished, ironed,
worked, used, taxed, mortgaged, owned,
chiselled, chained, oiled, tanned, plastered,
tempted, failed,
wired, subscribed, registered, addicted,
hitched, kidded, hounded, feared,
poisoned, sickened, pilled,
nipped, tucked, wigged,
bedded, heart attacked.
Freed!
Buried, burned, mourned and forgotten..
Next Please!”
Source: Topsy-Turvy World - Vegan Anarchy
“In what can sometimes be a sea of apathy, teachers are drawn moth-like to kids with light bulbs hovering over their heads. It gives them something to work with. I will be forever grateful to Dora Brooking, for not only spotting my light bulb but also helping me turn up the wattage.”
Source: Nerd Do Well
“Kids are resilient. They understand way (WAY) more than adults give them credit for, and they pick up on unspoken cues when things aren’t explicitly expressed to them.”
Source: The Noisy Classroom
“It's probably true that schools are the most conservative of all cultural institutions, relentlessly seeking to pass on the rules of a damaged society to the next generation.”
Source: The Human Odyssey: Navigating the Twelve Stages of Life
“School only trains your mind, and that's such a small part of who you are...You're so much more. Your heart and soul, Sophie. We need to nourish the whole you as much as your brain.”
Source: The Love Proof
“The schooled mind is confined to the teachings of the school, the free mind has not been shackled - its potential is infinite.”
“Work. Or school. This is for the money. But what is anything else of purchase, for that matter, but required means of enhancing your bare living – better sleep and better food – like spending decades just to turn a little knob higher on a pathetic radio called existence.”
Source: The Goodbye Song
“Work. Or school. This is for the money. But what is anything else, for that matter, but required means of enhancing your bare living – better sleep and better food – like spending decades just to turn a little knob higher on a pathetic radio called existence.”
Source: The Goodbye Song
“We didn't want our children to waste their time in the same empty rituals of education that we did: passing tests only to forget the subject matter when the grades were given; spending years with passing grades in foreign-language instruction yet being unable to have even a rudimentary conversation in the language outside of the classroom; struggling to learn advanced math skills that were seldom used outside of class; doing lab experiments that were more rote exercises than scientific inquiries. Time and youth cannot be regained, so perhaps, ultimately, the real crisis in education may be one of disillusionment among graduates rather than poor performance among current students.”
Source: Teach Your Own: The Indispensable Guide to Living and Learning with Children at Home