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The acceptance of corporatism causes us to deny and undermine the legitimacy of the individual as citizen in a democracy. The result…
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An individual who stands out, or disagrees or takes risks is a danger to such systems and is effortlessly and, unconsciously sidelined.
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The best defence [for a democracy, for the public good] is aggressiveness, the aggressiveness of the involved citizen. We need to reassert…
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Our civilization is locked in the grip of an ideology - corporatism. An ideology that denies and undermines the legitimacy of individuals…
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A commercial civilization is money-oriented, profit-oriented. Commercial values always tend to wrench a society free of tradition.Economics from education to public service…
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The Unconscious Civilisation There is a certain terrifying dignity to the big ideologies. With the stroke of an intellectual argument the planet…
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The Age of Reason has turned out to be the Age of Structure; a time when, in the absence of purpose, the…
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I have a theory of statistics: if you can double them or halve them and they still work, they are really good…
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Simplicity is no longer presented as a virtue. The value of complex and difficult language has been preached with such insistence that…
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Dictionary: Opinion presented as truth in alphabetical order.
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All the lessons of psychiatry, psychology, social work, indeed culture, have taught us over the last hundred years that it is the…
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In general, democracy and individualism have advanced in spite of and often against specific economic interest. Both democracy and individualism have been…
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When you get down to it, unschooling is really just a fancy term for 'life' or 'growing up uninstitutionalized'.
— Grace Llewellyn
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Unschooling is creating an environment in which children can learn easily and naturally all the time.
— Sandra Dodd
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Traditional education focuses on teaching, not learning. It incorrectly assumes that for every ounce of teaching there is an ounce of learning…
— Russell L. Ackoff
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Educating the masses was intended only to improve the relationship between the top and the bottom of society. Not for changing the…
— John Ralston Saul
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I imagine a school system that recognizes learning is natural, that a love of learning is normal, and that real learning is…
— Tom Peters
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Life can only be understood backwards but you have to live it forward. You can only do that by stepping into uncertainty…
— Charles Handy
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The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must…
— Abraham Lincoln
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The whole educational and professional training system is a very elaborate filter, which just weeds out people who are too independent, and…
— Noam Chomsky
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Actually, all education is self-education. A teacher is only a guide, to point out the way, and no school, no matter how…
— Louis L'Amour
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I am concerned that too many people are focused too much on money and not on their greatest wealth, which is their…
— Robert Kiyosaki
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