I love watching TED Talks, and recently I saw this follow up to one of my favorite talks. Ken Robinson talks about our educational system and how we need to change it. If you’ve got a few minutes, check out both talks below.
Bring on the Learning Revolution!
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"If we have the truth, it cannot be harmed by investigation. If we have not the truth, it ought to be harmed." - J. Reuben Clark
“I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.” - Thomas Jefferson
"I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion." - Henry David Thoreau
"I am the gatekeeper of my own destiny and I will have my glory day in the hot sun." - Ignacio (Nacho)
“Money will not purchase happiness for the man who has no concept of what he wants: money will not give him a code of values if he’s evaded the knowledge of what to value, and it will not provide him with a purpose, if he’s evaded the choice of what to seek.” - Ayn Rand
“We do not live to eat and make money. We eat and make money to be able to enjoy life.” - George Mallory
"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.'' - Galileo Galilei
"In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present. When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you." - Tao Te Ching
"The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew." - Abraham Lincoln
