"At its best, schooling can be about how to make a life, which is quite different from how to make a living."

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Source : Neil Postman (2011). “The End of Education: Redefining the Value of School”, p.10, Vintage

Neil Postman

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“Reforms are slow, but they never go backward.”
“The policies enacted during segregation are still being felt in Birmingham.”
“I feel that people who understand the horrible things that young emaciated models go through really champion the cause of realistic standards in fashion.You only have to see one person suffering to understand how truly horrible the industry is to these girls.”
“There is no such thing as inanimate matter...there is God or divinity in all matter and it is all living energy.”
“Models, even male models - how small they've gotten! It looks great for clothes, but it's not what you want in real life. Why do we have to keep looking at ourselves and measuring?”
“She went out in the city with its lights like a radioactive phosphorescence, wandered through galleries where the high-priced art on the walls was the same as the graffiti scrawled outside by taggers who were arrested or killed for it, went to parties in hotel rooms where white-skinned, lingerie-clad rock stars had been staying the night their husbands shot themselves in the head, listened to music in nightclubs where stunning boyish actors had OD'd on the pavement.”
“I said, "Well, why do you believe in the Klein Bottle?" He said, "Because I can imagine it." I said, "You don't have to imagine a Mobius strip. It's right there in front of you!" But [Buckminster Fuller] couldn't see how that could involve a cross cap, meaning something that couldn't be reduced to a two-dimensional surface. Which it does. It's because he was thinking that the matrix was the thing that a fly could walk over the edge of, like a torus.”
“Sometimes, I think the things we see are shadows of the things to be; that what we plan we build”

Source : Phoebe Cary (1882). “The Poetical Works of Alice and Phoebe Cary”

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