Barry Mernin

“Whatever the anxiety is based upon, one of the best ways to minimize the anxiety of change—or any other anxiety—is to actively participate in the process of that change, i.e., to do something.” She declared it is necessary to become actively involved in the change rather than passively accepting and accommodating it.7 By”
― Phyllis Povell, Montessori Comes to America: The Leadership of Maria Montessori and Nancy McCormick Rambusch

“Man is the lowest-cost, 150-pound, nonlinear, all-purpose computer system which can be mass-produced by unskilled labor.”
― Steven Pinker, Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress

“In 21st-century America, the control of Congress by a Republican Party that became synonymous with the extreme right has been pernicious, because it is so convinced of the righteousness of its cause and the evil of its rivals that it has undermined the institutions of democracy to get what it wants.”
― Steven Pinker, Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress

“remember passing our once-beautiful large synagogue, which had not been used for many years now, and seeing a woman leaning against the wall wailing, just crying out in agony. She looked to me like a branch dismembered from a tree, an arm without a body, a mind filled with grief, a bleeding heart, a walking tragedy. I hurried away, afraid of being swept up into her grief.”
― Alicia Appleman, Alicia: My Story