Jenna

“For how could you establish even the most obvious fact when there existed no record outside your own memory?”
― George Orwell, 1984

“We are preparing a generation of robots. Kids are learning exclusively through rote. We have children who are given no conceptual framework. They do not learn to think, because their teachers are straitjacketed by tests that measure only isolated skills. As a result, they can be given no electives, nothing wonderful or fanciful or beautiful, nothing that touches the spirit or the soul.”
― Jonathan Kozol, Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools

“I genuinely expect the best from people. And because I know there are people who will not live up to that expectation, I find it hard to interact with people whose intentions I can't decipher, which is a lot of people—not all of whom are ill-intentioned. This makes it hard for me to be social. It makes it hard to be a lot of things, really.”
― Russ Pitts, Sex, Drugs and Cartoon Violence: My Decade as a Video Game Journalist

“I think we should stop asking people in their twenties what they “want to do” and start asking them what they don’t want to do. Instead of asking students to “declare their major” we should ask students to “list what they will do anything to avoid.” It just makes a lot more sense. I”
― Amy Poehler, Yes Please