L Sarich

“Information is power. But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves.”
― Aaron Swartz

“Real education is about genuine understanding and the ability to figure things out on your own; not about making sure every 7th grader has memorized all the facts some bureaucrats have put in the 7th grade curriculum.”
― Aaron Swartz

“Indeed, school was so important that the mill owners quickly decided to make it mandatory. “No language of ours can convey too strongly our sense of the dangers which wait us from [those who] are not and have never been members of our public schools,” warned the Lowell School Committee. Universal schooling is “our surest safety against internal commotions.”‡”
― Aaron Swartz, The Boy Who Could Change the World: The Writings of Aaron Swartz

“a piece of knowledge, unlike a piece of physical property, can be shared by large groups of people without making anybody poorer.”
― Aaron Swartz, The Boy Who Could Change the World: The Writings of Aaron Swartz