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Previewing this book for 8th grade next year. So far so good, with hard facts and digestible sentences for young people.

"As Bill Jensen said in his book 'Future Strong': 'even as we enter one of the most disruptive eras in human history, one of the biggest challenges we face is that today's systems and structures still live on, past their expiration dates. We are locked into twentieth-century approaches that are holding back the next big fundamental shifts in human capacity.'"

"I have often wondered why the farthest-out position always feels so right to me; why extremes, although difficult and sometimes painful to maintain, are always more comfortable than one plan running straight down a line in the unruffled middle. What I really understand is a particular kind of determination. It is stubborn, it is painful, it is infuriating, but it often works."

"...not only do humans possess typical states of consciousness like waking, dreaming, or deep sleep, they also possess profoundly high states of consciousness like enlightenment or awakening--and one of our education systems teach ANY of that." -ken wilber

the teacher in me loved this part of the chapter. ;)

"creating your life's work is a process of discovering yourself. you do so by going within, rather than looking for answers outside yourself."

"To refuse to participate in the shaping of our future is to give it up. Do not be misled into passivity either by false security (they don't mean me) or by despair (there's nothing we can do). Each of us must find our work and do it. Militancy no longer means guns at high noon, if it ever did. It means actively working for change, sometimes in the absence of any surety that change is coming." -pg. 41

"Liberation is a praxis: the action and reflection of men and women upon their world in order to transform it. Those truly committed to the cause of liberation can accept neither the mechanistic concept of consciousness as an empty vessel to be filled, nor the use of banking methods of domination (propaganda, slogans--deposits) in the name of liberation."