This document contains a collection of quotes related to life, education, and learning. Some key themes that emerge are: - Formal education does not always support learning and can undermine local values and ways of living. - True learning happens through real-world experiences and connections, not by compartmentalizing knowledge. - Society would benefit by moving away from the idea that everyone must earn a living through traditional work, and instead support more learning and problem-solving.

1. Life & Education
A collage of quotes & thoughts...
(...what brings me to LSuC 2013)

2. There are three most deplorable
things in the world : the spoiling of
fine youths through false education,
the degradation of fine art through
vulgar admiration, and the utter
waste of fine tea through
incompetent manipulation.
-Lichilai

3. It is a miracle that curiosity survives
formal education.
-Albert Einstein

4. Enforced schooling is the most
powerful weapon used by
governments and missionaries to
instill in tribal children values which
are different, often contradictory, to
those held by their own societies.
-Stephen Corry

5. Educate your enemy, don’t kill him,
for he is worth more to you alive
than dead
-Che Guevara

6. Learning can’t take place in pieces
of time cut out for the convenience of
an institution or in lessons set apart
from the world in which students live.
We don’t learn when life is divided up
into sections that have little
connection with each other.
-Thomas Moore

7. Our only teachers are those who tell
us to ‘do with me’, and are able to
emit signs to be developed in
heterogeneity rather than propose
gestures for us to reproduce.
-Deleuze, 1994

8. Everybody is a genius. But if you
judge a fish by its ability to climb a
tree, it will live its whole life believing
that it is stupid.
-Albert Einstein

9. I am learning all the time. The
tombstone will be my diploma.
-Eartha Kitt

10. The greatest hazard of all, losing
one’s self, can occur very quietly in
the world, as if it were nothing at all.
No other loss can occur so quietly;
any other loss - an arm, a leg, five
dollars, a wife, etc. - is sure to be
noticed.
-Soren Kierkegaard

11. Freedom has become the right to
share in the proceeds of one’s own
permanent enslavement.
-Anya Kamenetz (The Capital is
Personal)

12. I don’t want to earn my living; I want
to live.
-Oscar Wilde

13. We should do away with the absolutely specious notion
that everybody has to earn a living. It is a fact today that
one in ten thousand of us can make a technological
breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth
of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense
of earning a living. We keep inventing jobs because of this
false idea that everybody has to be employed at some
kind of drudgery because, according to Malthusian
Darwinian theory he must justify his right to exist. So we
have inspectors of inspectors and people making
instruments for inspectors to inspect inspectors. The true
business of people should be to go back to school and
think about whatever it was they were thinking about
before somebody came along and told them they had to
earn a living.
-Buckminster Fuller

14. Power is exercised through
networks, and individuals do not
simply circulate in those networks;
they are in a position to both submit
to and exercise this power. They are
never the inert or consenting targets
of power; they are always its relays.
In other words, power passes
through individuals. It is not applied
to them.
-Michel Foucault

15. If we have learned anything from people’s
capitalism and the laws of biology it is that
when “cells” are allowed to thrive, the entire
organism thrives. Those top-down attempts
to force collectivism have been miserable
failures. However, when individuals
cooperate together voluntarily, and when
they are allowed to gain a fair price for their
labor, communities thrive and commonwealth
builds.
●-Steve Bhaerman (Original Wealth And
People’s Capitalism)

16. The illiterate of the 21st century will
not be those that cannot read and
write, but those who cannot learn,
unlearn, and relearn.
-Alvin Toffler

17. The plain fact is that the planet does not
need more successful people. But it does
desperately need more peacemakers,
healers, restorers, storytellers, and lovers of
every kind. It needs people who live well in
their places. It needs people of moral
courage willing to join the fight to make the
world habitable and humane. And these
qualities have little to do with success as we
have defined it.
-David Orr, Ecological Literacy

21. There will typically be overlap,
disagreement, and confusion before
there is synergy, cooperation, and
collaboration.
- Dean Allemang / Jim Hendler
●(Semantic Web for the Working Ontologist)

22. If you want to go quickly, go alone.
If you want to go far, go together.
-African Proverb

23. I am not an optimist neither am I a
pessimist. I am a very serious
possibilist.
-Hans Rosling