“It happens from time to time in every complex and active society, that certain persons feel the complexity and insistence as a tangle, and seek freedom in retirement, as Thoreau sought at Walden Pond. They do not, however, in this manner escape from the social institutions of their time, nor do they really mean to do so; what they gain, if they are successful, is a saner relation to them.” IfsFeelsMeanPersonsHappensCertainSocialSuccessfulGainsRelationInstitutionsComplexesActiveComplexityRetirementReally MeanPondsInsistenceSocial InstitutionsWalden Pond Book:Human Nature and the Social Order Source: Human Nature and the Social Order
“Often low-income parents give their children every other thing they need for successful participation in school and the world of work except the planning and organizing skills and habit patterns needed to operate in complex settings. Many intelligent and able college students from low-income backgrounds confront these deficits when faced with a heavy assignment load. . . . These patterns are best acquired at an early age and need to be quite well developed by late elementary school or twelve or thirteen years of age.” WorldNeedsGivingYearsWellsChildrenAgeAbleSchoolParentSuccessfulStudentsCollegeNeededHabitSkillsLateLowsIntelligentComplexesPatternsHeavyPlanningBackgroundsIncomeSettingSettingsTwelveLoadParticipationDeficitAssignmentsThirteenElementary SchoolCollege StudentsLow Income Book:School Power: Implications of an Intervention Project Source: School Power: Implications of an Intervention Project
“Business schools reward complex behavior but it's the simple behavior that makes you successful in life” SchoolSimpleSuccessfulBehaviorComplexesRewardsBusiness School Author:John C. Maxwell
“There is no - let me repeat - no example in the last quarter-century of a large, complex economy that has been successful with high taxes.” Has BeensLastsEconomySuccessfulCenturyExampleTaxesLet MeComplexesRepeatsQuartersHigh Taxes Author:Jonah Goldberg