Liam

“One of the most ironic paradoxes of our time is this great availability of leisure that somehow fails to be translated into enjoyment.”
― Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience

“Reflection opens the avenue to criticism, and the folkways may not like criticism. In this way, ideologies become closed circles, primed to feel outraged by the questioning mind.”
― Simon Blackburn, Think: A Compelling Introduction to Philosophy

“This failure to relate classroom topics to their eventual application in the real world is one of the central shortcomings of our broken classroom model, and is a direct consequence of our habit of rushing through conceptual modules and pronouncing them finished when in fact only a very shallow level of functional understanding has been reached.”
― Salman Khan, The One World Schoolhouse: Education Reimagined

“The one essential is that a society be constituted in which the exploitation and domination of man by man are impossible. That the society, in other words, be such that the means of existence and development of labor be free and open to every one, and all be able to co-operate, according to their wishes and their knowledge, in the organization of social life.”
― Errico Malatesta, Anarchy: Enriched edition. A Seminal Manifesto of Anarchist Political Philosophy, Social Critique, and Revolutionary Ideals for a Just Society