"Is it any wonder that Socrates was outraged at the accusation he took money to teach? Even then, philosophers saw clearly the inevitable direction the professionalization of teaching would take, that of pre-empting the teaching function, which, in a healthy community, belongs to everyone."

-- John Taylor Gatto

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“It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for understanding, a delight in changing reality. Our audience must experience not only the ways to free Prometheus, but be schooled in the very desire to free him. Theater must teach all the pleasures and joys of discovery, all the feelings of triumph associated with liberation.”

Source : "Essays on the Art of Theater". Book by Bertolt Brecht, 1954.
“Teach Scouts not how to get a living, but how to live.”
“In this speedy world of ours when facts are multiplying rapidly and giant rearrangements are happening all around us, it seems dangerous to be made nervous by the new - to want what we can never have, to want things not to be rearranged. It would be better to be able to take the leap, which is to be able not only to live with change and newness, but even to help make it.”
“What you learn from others you can use to follow. What you learn for yourself you can use to lead.”
“I ask Liberians to pray so that God will bring peace and stability, and bring about unification to ourselves.”
“I was a dancer first, which made me realize how much I loved performing.”
“It is quite as ignominious to allow oneself to be deceived as to deceive.”
“Ask for what end the heavenly bodies shine, Earth for whose use? Pride answers, 'Tis for mine For me kind nature wakes her genial power, Suckles each herb, and spreads out every flower.”

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