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“TV makes it so easy to postpone living for another half hour.”
― Bill McKibben, The Age of Missing Information

“what you do every day is what forms your mind and precious few of us can or would spend most days outdoors.”
― Bill McKibben, The Age of Missing Information

“Man must choose whether to be rich in things or in the freedom to use them.”
― Ivan Illich

“Learning is not the product of teaching. Learning is the product of the activity of learners.”
― John Holt

“The true test of character is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don't know what to do.”
― John Holt

“Learning is not a product of teaching. Kids are born learning. They learn how to walk, how to talk. They’re basically little scientists. If we don’t stop that process, it will continue.”
― Grace Llewellyn

“Children learn what they live. Put kids in a class and they will live out their lives in an invisible cage, isolated from their chance at community; interrupt kids with bells and horns all the time and they will learn that nothing is important or worth finishing; ridicule them and they will retreat from human association; shame them and they will find a hundred ways to get even. The habits taught in large-scale organizations are deadly.”
― John Taylor Gatto

“School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is.”
― Ivan Illich

“Most learning is not the result of instruction. It is rather the result of unhampered participation in a meaningful setting. Most people learn best by being "with it," yet school makes them identify their personal, cognitive growth with elaborate planning and manipulation.”
― Ivan Illich, Deschooling Society

“Every aspect of life is an experiment that can be better understood if it is perceived in that way.”
― John Brockman, This Will Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking