We live in a country that is addicted to incarceration as a tool for social control. As it stands now, justice systems are extremely expensive, do not rehabilitate but in fact make the people that experience them worse, and have no evidence-based correlatives to reducing crime. Yet with that track record they continue to thrive. . . . Only an addict would see that as an OK result. —James Bell More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The county jail looked like a tall, forbidding elementary school. Seven stories of dirty-brown brick, one hundred years old and now operating at 330 percent of capacity. —Richard Price More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The central question is whether the wonderfully diverse and gifted assemblage of human beings on this earth really knows how to run a civilization. —Adlai Stevenson More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life. —Leo Tolstoy More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A man's ignorance sometimes is not only useful, but beautiful — while his knowledge, so called, is oftentimes worse than useless, besides being ugly. Which is the best man to deal with — he who knows nothing about a subject, and, what is extremely rare, knows that he knows nothing, or he who really knows something about it, but thinks that he knows all? —Henry David Thoreau More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
All this pitting of sex against sex, of quality against quality; all this claiming of superiority and imputing of inferiority, belong to the private-school stage of human existence where there are "sides," and it is necessary for one side to beat another side, and of the utmost importance to walk up to a platform and receive from the hands of the headmaster himself a highly ornamental pot. As people mature they cease to believe in sides or in headmasters or in highly ornamental pots. —Virginia Woolf More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A sobering thought . . . : What if, right at this very moment, I am living up to my full potential? —Jane Wagner More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
In the latter part of his career, Spanish violinist Pablo de Sarasate received a visit from a famous music critic who acclaimed him as a genius. . . . "A genius!" Sarasate said. "For thirty-seven years I've practiced fourteen hours a day, and now they call me a genius! —Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
All of us invent ourselves. Some of us just have more imagination than others. —Cher More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The wise man can pick up a grain of sand and envision a whole universe. But the stupid man will just lay down on some seaweed and roll around until he's completely draped in it. Then he'll stand up and go, "Hey, I'm Vine Man. —Jack Handey More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Math was always my bad subject. I couldn't convince my teachers that many of my answers were meant ironically. —Calvin Trillin More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known but to question it. —Jacob Bronowski More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
What happens to the rat that stops running the maze? / The doctors think it's dumb when it's just disappointed. —Mark Eitzel More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Hell on earth for a brilliant innovator is spelled s-c-h-o-o-l. . . . [Inventor] Dean Kamen . . . found himself at odds with his public-school teachers in New York's Long Island because he noted that his wrong answers weren't really wrong. For instance, when asked to select the word that didn't belong to the set "add, subtract, multiply, increase," Kamen might choose "add" because all the others had eight letters. —Steven Levy More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of something that is not there, and that is not what I call education. I call it intrusion. —Muriel Spark More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email