There is no such thing as a neutral education process. Education either functions as an instrument which is used to facilitate the integration of generations into the logic of the present system and bring about conformity to it, or it becomes the ‘practice of freedom’, the means by which men and women deal critically with [...]

Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily some of them kept records of their troubles. You’ll learn from them – if you want to. Just as someday, if you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you… – JD Salinger

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. – Robert Frost

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. – Mark Twain

A school is a place where one learns about the totality, the wholeness of life. Academic excellence is absolutely necessary, but a school includes much more than that. It is a place where both the teacher and the student explore, not only the outer world, the world of knowledge, but also their own thinking, their [...]

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig

[Click here for more on Metaphysics of Quality] Plans are deliberately indefinite, more to travel than to arrive anywhere. We want to make good time, but for us now this is measured with emphasis on “good” rather than “time” and when you make that shift in emphasis the whole approach changes. One does not convert individuals [...]

The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge by Carlos Castaneda

Para mi solo recorrer los caminos que tienen corazon, cualquier camino que tenga corazon. Por ahi yo recorro, y la unica prueba que vale es atravesar todo su largo.Y por ahi yo recorro mirando, mirando, sin aliento. – Don Juan …nothing more can be attempted than to establish the beginning and the direction of an infinitely [...]

A Language Older Than Words by Derrick Jensen

How and why do we numb ourselves to our own experiences? How and why do we deafen ourselves to the voices of others? We are too afraid to explore the potential for life and love and happiness we each carry inside. You may not destroy someone’s world unless you are prepared to offer a better [...]

Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse

Magic Theatre Entrance Not for everybody For Madmen Only! Price of Admittance your mind …he had created within himself with positive genius a boundless and frightful capacity for pain. Most men will not swim before they are able to. Is not that witty? Naturally, they won’t swim! They are born for the solid earth, not [...]

Walden by David Henry Thoreau

Most men, even in this comparatively free country, through mere ignorance and mistake, are so occupied with the factitious cares and superfluously coarse labors of life that its finer fruits cannot be plucked by them. The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. [...]