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  • 10 Quotes from Bertrand Russell on Education and Life

    10 Quotes from Bertrand Russell on Education and Life0

    • January 13, 2016

    1. “Without effort and change, human life cannot remain good.”   2. “We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.”   3. “The principal source of the harm done by the State is the fact that power is its chief end.”   4. “Most people

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  • 10 Provocative Quotes on Education from Ray Bradbury

    10 Provocative Quotes on Education from Ray Bradbury0

    1) “The problem in our country isn’t with books being banned, but with people no longer reading… You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.” 2) “If you can’t read and write you can’t think. Your thoughts are dispersed if you don’t know how to read and

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  • 10 Provocative Quotes from Ivan Illich’s “Deschooling Society”

    10 Provocative Quotes from Ivan Illich’s “Deschooling Society”0

    • August 17, 2015

    Ivan Illich’s groundbreaking book Deschooling Society (1971) offers a radical critique of the institutionalization of education within modern societies. Illich believed that we wrongly identify education with schooling, since most of our education happens outside of the school environment. He advocated restructuring education to provide people with multiple opportunities for learning outside of school. “What

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  • 10 Phrases We Use Today That Originated In The Middle Ages

    10 Phrases We Use Today That Originated In The Middle Ages0

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  • 10 Philosophy Books to Bring to a Desert Island

    10 Philosophy Books to Bring to a Desert Island0

    • December 23, 2015

    Dr. Gregory Sadler, known for his accessible YouTube videos on philosophy, was asked to name ten philosophy books he would bring to a desert island. In the video that appears at the bottom of this post, he chose the following books because they “encapsulate [many] other viewpoints” and “have a lot of meat” to them.   

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  • 10 Penetrating Quotes on Contemplation from an American Monk

    10 Penetrating Quotes on Contemplation from an American Monk0

    Of Thomas Merton (1915-1968), the Dalai Lama once said, “Merton introduced me to the real meaning of the word ‘Christian.’” Of himself, Merton describes his early journey to becoming a Trappist monk below: “[I] spurned New York, spat on Chicago, and tromped on Louisville, heading for the woods with Thoreau in one pocket, John of

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