Bloodroot
6.
Why did colleges make their students take examinations, and why did they give grades?
What did a grade really mean?
When a student 'studied' did he do anything more than read and think --- or was there something special which no one at Walden Two would know about?
Why did the professor lecture to the students?
Skinner, Walden Two, p. 214 .
Oak Tree
7.
Were the students never expected to do anything except answer questions?
Was it true that students were made to read books they were not interested in?
Skinner, Walden Two
Red Trillium
8.
Our word is not balanced. Too few control too much, and too many have too little to hope for, too much turmoil, too many wars, too much suffering.
James Wolfensohn
World Bank President
Wild Columbine
9.
Modern science has come to realize that all scientific theories and approximations to the true nature of reality; and that each theory is valid for a certain range of phenomena.
Fritjof Capra
Author, The Turning Point: Science, Society, and the Rising Culture
Bluets
10.
School is an institution built on the axiom that learning is the result of teaching.
Ivan Illich, Deschooling Society, p. 35