Helene Uppin

“The opposite of fragmentation is not homogenization, which is a suspicious form of unity. Who wants blending, anyway? And for what purpose? Blending, somehow, always ends up privileging the perspective of the blade.”
― Etienne Wenger, Communities of Practice: Learning, Meaning, and Identity

“Life is too short to read a bad book.”
― James Joyce

“Learning is the engine of practice, and practice is the history of that learning.”
― Etienne Wenger, 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.”
― Ivan Illich, Deschooling Society