Irmus

“If s-chools, doing places for children, are honest, active, and interesting enough, they will not need to be compulsory; as long as they are compulsory, they don't need to be good, and most of them will not be. To say that schools must be compulsory because someday they might all be good, is to say in effect that they must be compulsory no matter how bad they are. I”
― John Holt, Instead of Education: Ways to Help People Do Things Better: Way to Help People Do Things Better

“Po dziesięciokroć przezwyciężaj siebie za dnia; to sprowadza dobre znużenie i jest makiem dla duszy.
Po dziesięciokroć jednaj się na powrót z samym sobą; albowiem przezwyciężenie niesie gorycz, a źle sypia niepojednany.
Dziesięć prawd znajdź za dnia; inaczej nocą szukać będziesz prawdy, a Twoja dusza pozostanie głodna.
Po dziesięciokroć śmiej się za dnia i bądź pogodny; inaczej w nocy dokuczał Ci będzie żołądek, ten ojciec melancholii.

Choćby jednak posiadał kto wszystkie cnoty, jednego jeszcze trzeba: umieć wysłać je w porę spać.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“You can’t consume much if you sit still and read books.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“Japanese gardeners, over many centuries, have learned to do things to trees, to clip their roots or trim their branches, to limit their supply of water, air, or sun, so that they live, and for a long time, but only in tiny, shrunken, twisted shapes. Such trees may please us, or they may not. But what could they tell us about the nature of trees? If a tree can be deformed and shrunk, is this, then, its nature? The nature of these trees, given enough of the sun, air, water, soil, and food they need, is to grow like trees, tall and straight. People can be more easily deformed, and worse deformed, even than trees—and more than trees, they feel it, it hurts. But”
― John Holt, Instead of Education: Ways to Help People Do Things Better: Way to Help People Do Things Better