Everybody "is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will spend its whole life believing that it is stupid." — Albert Einstein "I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot … if we taught babies to talk as most skills are taught in school, they would memorise lists of sounds in a predetermined order and practice them alone in a closet." — Linda Darling-Hammond "Education itself is a putting off, a postponement; we are told to work hard to get good results. Why? So we can get a good job. What is a good job? "One that pays well. Oh. And that’s it? All this suffering, merely so that we can earn a lot of money, which, even if we manage it, will not solve our problems anyway? "It’s a tragically limited idea of what life is about." — Tom Hodgkinson "There were no sex classes. No friendship classes. No classes on how to navigate a bureaucracy, buil...
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