Liam

“Networks like schools are not communities, just as school training is not education. By preempting fifty percent of the total time of the young, by locking young people up with other young people exactly their own age, by ringing bells to start and stop work, by asking people to think about the same thing at the same time in the same way, by grading people the way we grade vegetables—and in a dozen other vile and stupid ways—network schools steal the vitality of communities and replace it with an ugly mechanism.”
― John Taylor Gatto, Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling

“As bitcoin approaches infinite stock to flow ratio it will be the soundest money in existence. Infinite soundness is hard to beat.”
― Gigi, 21 Lessons: What I've Learned from Falling Down the Bitcoin Rabbit Hole

“The truth is that schools don’t really teach anything except how to obey orders.”
― John Taylor Gatto, Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling

“One of the most ironic paradoxes of our time is this great availability of leisure that somehow fails to be translated into enjoyment.”
― Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience