The conventional pedagogy persists because it conveys a view of reality that simplifies our lives. By this view, we and our world become objects to be lined up, counted, organized and owned, rather than a community of selves and spirits related to each other in a complex web of accountability called "truth." The conventional pedagogy pretends to give us mastery over the world, relieving us of the need for mutual vulnerability that the new epistemologies, and truth itself, imply.
-- Parker J. Palmer (To Know as We Are Known)

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We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the fact that many inventions had their birth as toys.
-- Eric Hoffer

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You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
-- Eric Hoffer

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Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have lies in this; when I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. My mind becomes pervaded with it. Then the effort that I have made is what people are pleased to call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labor and thought.
-- Alexander Hamilton

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There is this sense that if we just interact more -- make one more phone call or send one extra email -- we will get more done. We will get ahead or, at least, catch up. The truth is that the more we communicate, the more we MUST communicate.
-- Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

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When I use a word it means just what I choose it to mean -- neither more nor less.
-- Humpty Dumpty (Lewis Carroll)

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Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline.
-- Barbara Tuchman

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