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“Competitive skills are desperately needed by poor children in America, and realistic recognition of the economic roles that they may someday have an opportunity to fill is obviously important, too. But there is more to life, and there ought to be much more to childhood, than readiness for economic functions.”

May Children Important America Opportunity Poor Roles Economic Childhood Ought Needed Skills Function Recognition Someday Realistic Readiness More To Life Poor Children

Author:Jonathan Kozol

“An image, a dance step, a song may function from time to time as entertainment, but the root and full practice of the arts lies in the recognition that art is power, an instrument of communion between the self and all that is important, all that is sacred.”

May Art Important Self Lying Song Steps Practice Art Is Roots Function Instruments Sacred Entertainment Recognition Communion Dance Steps

Book:No More Secondhand Art

Source: No More Secondhand Art

“Recognition of function always precedes recognition of being.”

Function Recognition

Book:Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual

Source: Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual

“The plants that produce visions can function- for those of us who have inherited the New World Order of barren materialism, cut off from our spiritual heritage by a spiteful culture that gives us nothing but ashes- as the talismans of recognition that awaken our minds to reality.”

Source: Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism

“The classification of facts, the recognition of their sequence and relative significance is the function of science, and the habit of forming a judgment upon these facts unbiassed by personal feeling is characteristic of what may be termed the scientific frame of mind.”

Mind May Facts Feelings Science Habit Judgment Accounts Function Recognition Characteristics Significance Relative Sequence Classification Frame Of Mind Personal Feelings

Book:The Grammar of Science

Source: The Grammar of Science