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We’ve bought into the idea that education is about training and “success”, defined monetarily, rather than learning to think critically and to challenge. We should not forget that the true purpose of education is to make minds, not careers. A culture that does not grasp the vital interplay between morality and power, which mistakes management techniques for wisdom, which fails to understand that the measure of a civilization is its compassion, not its speed or ability to consume, condemns itself to death.
Chris Hedges, Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle(via theantidote)
Posted on June 13, 2012 via yan with 84 notes
Source: huiyan
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There is something odd in the fact that when we reproduce the Middle Ages it is always some such rough and half-grotesque part of them that we reproduce … Why is it that we mainly remember the Middle Ages by absurd things? … Few modern people know what a mass of illuminating philosophy, delicate metaphysics, clear and dignified social morality exists in the serious scholastic writers of mediaeval times. But we seem to have grasped somehow that the ruder and more clownish elements in the Middle Ages have a human and poetical interest. We are delighted to know about the ignorance of mediaevalism; we are contented to be ignorant about its knowledge. When we talk of something mediaeval, we mean something quaint. We remember that alchemy was mediaeval, or that heraldry was mediaeval. We forget that Parliaments are mediaeval, that all our Universities are mediaeval, that city corporations are mediaeval, that gunpowder and printing are mediaeval, that half the things by which we now live, and to which we look for progress, are mediaeval.
“The True Middle Ages,” The Illustrated London News, 14 July 1906 – G. K. Chesterton
Absolutely true. The Renaissance was built on knowledge gleaned in the Middle ages. the Dark age is an awful misnomer.
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Posted on September 28, 2011 via I Eat Ewoks with 63 notes
Source: ahknight
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Posted on September 18, 2011 via no longer here with 343 notes
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For Matthew Shepard painted by Bo Bartlett
Understand that sexuality is as wide as the sea. Understand that your morality is not law. Understand that we are you. — Derek Jarman
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Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
C.S. Lewis (via missfolly)Posted on July 12, 2011 via Miss Folly with 71 notes
Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why. -- Kurt Vonnegut
He stretched out his arms to the crystalline, radiant sky.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
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