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“We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.”

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Author:Timothy Leary

“A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.”

“Literature is the safe and traditional vehicle through which we learn about the world and pass on values from on generation to the next. Books save lives.”

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Author:Laurie Anderson

“Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.”

“Education either functions as an instrument which is used to facilitate integration of the younger generation into the logic of the present system and bring about conformity or it becomes the practice of freedom, the means by which men and women deal critically and creatively with reality and discover how to participate in the transformation of their world.”

Source: Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition

“We have never been so rich in books. But there has never been a generation when there is so much twaddle in print for children.”

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Author:Charlotte Mason

“Our job is obvious: we need to get out of the way, shine a light, and empower a new generation to teach itself and to go further and faster than any generation ever has.”

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Author:Seth Godin

“This spontaneous emergence of order at critical points of instability, which is often referred to simply as "emergence," is one of the hallmarks of life. It has been recognized as the dynamic origin of development, learning, and evolution. In other words, creativity-the generation of new forms-is a key property of all living systems.”

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Book:The Ecology of Law: Toward a Legal System in Tune with Nature and Community

Source: The Ecology of Law: Toward a Legal System in Tune with Nature and Community

“A science is any discipline in which the fool of this generation can go beyond the point reached by the genius of the last generation.”

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Book:Politics, Law and Ritual in Tribal Society

Source: Politics, Law and Ritual in Tribal Society

“Sometimes I fear that, if Harvard does not give up trying to turn itself from an Institution of Learning into an Educational Institution, we may have a generation of professors whose duty it will be to disseminate information which they have not the time to acquire.”

“The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance.”

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Author:Robert Coveyou