"We've bought into the idea that education is about training and "success," defined monetarily, rather than learning to think critically and challenge. We should not forget that the true purpose of education is to make minds, not careers. A culture that does not grasp the vital interplay between morality and power, which mistakes management techniques for wisdom, which fails to understand that the measure of a civilization is its compassion, not its speed or ability to consume, condemns itself to death."

-- Chris Hedges

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“I started with shoes, and with hard work and discipline, the business prospered. I moved to the department store business and again, things went well.”
“I play really bad punk rock guitar. Age-old friends; it's just great hanging out with your mates, causing havoc.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“The few that pray at all pray oft amiss.”
“The way we eat has changed more in the last 50 years than in the previous 10,000â€¦. Now our food is coming from enormous assembly lines where the animals and the workers are being abused, and the food has become much more dangerous in ways that are deliberately hidden from us. This isnâ€™t just about what weâ€™re eating. Itâ€™s about what weâ€™re allowed to say. What weâ€™re allowed to know.”

Source : "Food, Inc". Documentary, www.imdb.com. 2008.
“I am fated to journey hand in hand with my strange heroes and to survey the surging immensity of life, to survey it through the laughter that all can see and through the tears unseen and unknown by anyone.”
“The higher the voice the smaller the intellect.”
“When you banish the dragons you banish the heroes.”

Source : Andrew Solomon (2014). “Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity”, p.46, Simon and Schuster
“I believe everything learned in college is an answer to a question that someone has posed. Questions get posed differently and the answers that come back transport us to places we never knew existed.”

Source : "The Spark Lighting the Way" by E. Gordon Gee, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 1, 2013.

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