July 2012
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“We have the power to be who we want to be, whoever that is.”
– Joseph Gordon-Levitt (I was reminded of this while listening to Jonathan Harris.)
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“One without a myth is like one uprooted, having no true link either with the...”
– Carl Jung, quoted by Jonathan Harris (referenced before) in his Eyeo2012 talk.
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“[T]oday it is easier to reach out to the entire world, then to communicate with...”
– Candy Chang (from Urbanized via Isaiah Saxon)
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WatchGOOD visits Gever Tulley and Brightworks.
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“I know that you can just google it, but there are all sorts of interesting...”
– Aaron Stewart-Ahn
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Why explore?
Bradley Garrett of Place Hacking has some very unschooling- and deschooling-like thoughts on exploration (emphasis mine):
The more interesting question, to me, is not why we explore but why everyone else stopped exploring. Exploration is not a process of learning something new as much as a process of rediscovering what you lost. As the polar explorer Erling Kagge has pointed out, we are all...
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“We lead lives of relentless separation – comings and goings, airport embraces,...”
– Kathleen Dean Moore (via Randall Szott)
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“Post Art doesn’t see art as medicine, relief, or religion; Post Art doesn’t even...”
– Jerry Saltz (via Randall Szott)
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“I am watching my child grow in a new world of comparable bounty and privilege...”
– Ta-Nehisi Coates, on schools and parenting
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“[I]t may be wiser to try to create the place you want to live, rather than to...”
– Frank Bures
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“When you have a vision for what a school can be, it has to permeate every pore...”
– Chris Lehmann
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“I was a member of the latchkey generation and had three hours of totally...”
– Tim Kreider, “The ‘Busy’ Trap”
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