“With each passage of human growth we must shed a protective structure . We are left exposed and vulnerable - but also yeasty and embryonic again, capable of stretching in ways we hadn't known before.” WayHumansLeftGrowthKnownCapableStructureVulnerableVulnerabilityPassagesExposedShedProtectiveStretching Book:Passages: Predictable Crises of Adult Life Source: Passages: Predictable Crises of Adult Life
“If the ancients left us ideas, to our credit be it spoken that we moderns are building houses for them -- structures which neither Plato nor Archimedes had dreamed possible.” IfsIdeasHouseLeftBuildingStructureCreditPlatoBuilding Houses Book:Table-talk Source: Table-talk
“You begin by engaging the left hemisphere of the brain with the overall shape, the basic structure of the painting, and then eventually you engage with the colour, with the mood of the painting and then you are entering the activities of the right hemisphere - and it is in the right hemisphere that ideas of space are born, the realization that you are seeing space.” IdeasLeftBornSpaceBrainSeeingPaintingActivityShapesStructureMoodRealizationColourEnteringEngagingHemisphere Author:Guido Molinari
“Freedom without organization of work would be useless. The child left free without means of work would go to waste, just as a new-born baby, if left free without nourishment, would die of starvation.The organization of the work, therefore, is the cornerstone of this new structure of goodness [in education], but even that organization would be in vain without the liberty to make use of it.” IfsMeanChildrenUseWould BeDiesLeftBornLibertyBabyGoodnessWasteOrganizationStructureUselessVainStarvationNourishmentCornerstones Book:Montessori's Own Handbook Source: Montessori's Own Handbook
“If you work through the existing structures you are going to be corrupted. By working through political system that poisons the atmosphere, even the progressive organizations, you can see it even nowadays in the US, where people on the "Left" are all caught in the electoral campaign and get into fierce arguments about should we support this third party candidate or that third party candidate. This is a sort of little piece of evidence that suggests that when you get into working through electoral politics you begin to corrupt your ideals.” PeopleIfsShouldLittlesPoliticalLeftPartySupportPiecesEvidenceIdealsArgumentOrganizationThirdsStructureCaughtCampaignsAtmosphereCandidatesPoisonProgressiveFiercePolitical SystemsThird Parties Author:Howard Zinn