Juan Manuel Restrepo

“Truth is like a vast tree, which yields more and more fruit, the more you nurture it. The deeper the search in the mine of truth, the richer the discovery of the gems buried there, in the shape of openings or an ever greater variety of service.”
― Mahatma Gandhi, An Autobiography

“Each child has a spark of genius waiting to be discovered, ignited, and fed. And the goal of schools shouldn’t be to manufacture “productive citizens” to fill some corporate cubicle; it should be to inspire each child to find a “calling” that will change the world. The jobs for the future are no longer Manager, Director, or Analyst, but Entrepreneur, Creator, and even Revolutionary.”
― Clark Aldrich, Unschooling Rules: 55 Ways to Unlearn What We Know About Schools and Rediscover Education

“La primera tarea de un buen profesor debería ser reconducir la escuela y la universidad a su función esencial: no la de producir hornadas de diplomados y graduados, sino la de formar ciudadanos libres, cultos, capaces de razonar de manera crítica y autónoma.”
― Nuccio Ordine, Clásicos para la vida: Una pequeña biblioteca ideal

“The word school is derived from the Greek word schole, meaning “leisure.” Yet our modern school system, born in the Industrial Revolution, has removed the leisure—and much of the pleasure—out of learning.”
― Greg McKeown, Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less