“I think we have to be active in teaching our children, and teaching each other. We have to be active about kindness and about peace. I've always fantasized that it would be great if there was a Department of Peace. We have a military, but what if there was a department devoted entirely and truthfully to finding peaceful resolutions?” IfsThinkingChildrenWould BeKindnessTeachingMilitaryFindingsOur ChildrenActivePeacefulDepartmentWhat IfResolutionDevotedFinding PeacePeaceful Resolution Author:Dave Matthews
“Power depends ultimately on physical force. By teaching people that violence is wrong (except, of course, when the system itself uses violence via the police or the military), the system maintains its monopoly on physical force and thus keeps all power in its own hands.” PeopleUseHandsCoursesForceViolenceTeachingMilitaryDependsPoliceMonopolyPhysical Force Book:Technological Slavery: The Collected Writings of Theodore J. Kaczynski, a.k.a. Source: Technological Slavery: The Collected Writings of Theodore J. Kaczynski, a.k.a.
“We have inadvertently designed a system in which being good at what you do as a teacher is not formally rewarded, while being poor at what you do is seldom corrected nor penalized.” WarSchoolEvilPoorEducationTeacherTeachingMilitaryBe Good Author:Elliot W. Eisner
“There are people all around us whose lives are masterpieces of service. One thinks of parents working two or three jobs to serve their families and community. So, too, many in the military or in nursing or teaching. As the needs are endless, so are the possibilities of service. Now, more than ever, empowered by the Internet, more of us can serve in more ways than ever before in history.” PeopleThinkingParentCommunityTeachingMilitaryPossibilityInternetMasterpieceEmpoweredNursing Author:James M Strock
“We lived, until I was 12 or so, in communal apartment with five different families and the same kitchen, in two little - my brother and me and my parents. It was hell, but it was a common thing. My father was not general or admiral, but he was colonel. He was teaching in military academy military topography.” LittlesTwoDifferentFatherParentCommonHellFiveTeachingMilitaryBrotherMy BrotherKitchenApartmentAcademyColonelsCommon ThingsAdmiralTopographyDifferent Families Author:Mikhail Baryshnikov