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“School has become the world religion of a modernized proletariat, and makes futile promises of salvation to the poor of the technological age.”
― Deschooling Society
― Deschooling Society
“Indeed, what says more: the few lines of a tightly written poem or a volume of analytical comments on it? The communicative ability of artifacts depends on how the work of negotiating meaning is distributed between reification and participation.”
― Communities of Practice: Learning, Meaning, and Identity
― Communities of Practice: Learning, Meaning, and Identity
“Learning is the engine of practice, and practice is the history of that learning.”
― Communities of Practice: Learning, Meaning, and Identity
― Communities of Practice: Learning, Meaning, and Identity
“The military institution is evidently absurd. The absurdity of non-military institutions is more difficult to face. It is even more frightening, precisely because it operates inexorably. We know which switch must stay open to avoid atomic holocaust. No switch detains an ecological Armageddon.”
― Deschooling Society
― Deschooling Society
“The exhaustion and pollution of earth's resource is, above all, the result of man's self-image, of a regression in his consciousness. Some would like to speak about a mutation of collective consciousness which leads to a conception of a man as an organism dependent not on nature and individuals, but rather on institutions. This institutionalization of substantive values, this belief that a planned process of treatment ultimately gives results desired by the recipient, this consumer ethos, is at the heart of the Promethean fallacy.
Efforts to find a new balance in the global milieu depend on the deinstitutionalization of values.”
― Deschooling Society
Efforts to find a new balance in the global milieu depend on the deinstitutionalization of values.”
― Deschooling Society
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