Michael Jackson on Music and Sharing It with the World
“I could compose and write music and get to share it with the masses and the people around the world and to have them to receive it so beautifully – I love that.”
Michael Jackson
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Consumer Society and Dependency – Quote by Ivan Illich
“In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy.”
Ivan Illich
“School is the advertising agency” – Quote by Ivan Illich
“School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is.”
Ivan Illich
Ivan Illich on Education, Learning and School
“Most learning is not the result of instruction. It is rather the result of unhampered participation in a meaningful setting. Most people learn best by being “with it,” yet school makes them identify their personal, cognitive growth with elaborate planning and manipulation.”
Ivan Illich
Ivan Illich on Schooling, Education and Competence
“The pupil is … ‘schooled’ to confuse teaching with learning, grade advancement with education, a diploma with competence, and fluency with the ability to say something new.”
Ivan Illich
Ivan Illich on School and the Institutionalization of Life
“School prepares for the alienating institutionalization of life by teaching the need to be taught. Once this lesson is learned, people lose their incentive to grow in independence; they no longer find relatedness attractive, and close themselves off to the surprises which life offers when it is not predetermined by institutional definition.”
Ivan Illich
Hope is the Worst Evil – Friedrich Nietzsche
“Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
1492 Discovery and Subjugation – Eduardo Galeano on Colonization
“In 1492, the natives discovered they were indians, discovered they lived in America, discovered they were naked, discovered that the Sin existed, discovered they owed allegiance to a King and Kingdom from another world and a God from another sky, and that this God had invented the guilty and the dress, and had sent to be burnt alive who worships the Sun the Moon the Earth and the Rain that wets it.”
Eduardo Galeano
Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche on Individuality and Self-Possession
“The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“Enjoying Time” – Quote by Eduardo Galeano
“I am not particularly interested in saving time; I prefer to enjoy it.”
Eduardo Galeano