Stevanie

“Conditioned by coercive schooling, young people lose their autonomy and natural learning inclinations and are instead trained to be taught. This process, according to Illich, then translates into a lifetime of institutionalized thinking that eradicates personal power.”
― Kerry McDonald, Unschooled: Raising Curious, Well-Educated Children Outside the Conventional Classroom

“An education that does not awaken the youth to a sense of conscience and personal moral responsibility is not worthy of that name. —Eduard Spranger, 1947.”
― Katrin Schumann, This Terrible Beauty

“Nothing makes you quite so aware of a person’s presence as the loss of it.”
― Kiera Cass, The Crown

“No matter the state of the world, or how dark the shadow that has fallen on our city, I find it curiously comforting to know that if you plant a seed and give it sunlight and water, it will grow.”
― Sarah Jio, All the Flowers in Paris