Jonathan Friedel

“The stereotypical images we hold toward groups are powerful in influencing what people see and expect of students. Unless educators consciously try to undermine and work against these kinds of stereotypes, they often act on them unconsciously. Our assumptions related to race are so deeply entrenched that it is virtually impossible for us not to hold them unless we take conscious and deliberate action.”
― Pedro A. Noguera, The Trouble With Black Boys: ...And Other Reflections on Race, Equity, and the Future of Public Education

“You know how you finish a bag of chips and you hate yourself? You know you’ve done nothing good for yourself. That’s the same feeling, and you know it is, after some digital binge. You feel wasted and hollow and diminished.”
― Dave Eggers, The Circle

“We bore ourselves in order to earn money that we'll later spend on trying to de-bore ourselves”
― Tom Hodgkinson, How To Be Free

“Education is like pruning ; it wrecks the natural growth of the tree in favour of a form that is useful to commercial society”
― Tom Hodgkinson, How To Be Free