The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERThe more we learn the more we realize how little we know.
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However, if we leave the industrial machinery and their energy-distribution networks and leave them also all the people who have routine jobs operating the industrial machinery and distributing its products.
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There are no solids. There are no things. There are only interfering and non-interfering patterns operative in pure principle, and principles are eternal.
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There will come a time when the proper education of children, by a glorified system of spontaneous education of choice, similar to the Montessori System, will be made possible.
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There is an effective strategy open to architects. Whereas doctors deal with the interior organisms of man, architects deal with the exterior organisms of man. Architects might join with one another to carry on their work in laboratories as do doctors in anticipatory medicine.
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The one common experience of all humanity is the challenge of problems.
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It is not for me to change you. The question is, how can I be of service to you without diminishing your degrees of freedom?
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If humans are not required to earn a living to be provided survival needs, many are going to want very much to be productive, but not at those tasks they did not choose to do but were forced to accept in order to earn money.
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All children are born geniuses, and we spend the first six years of their lives degeniusing them.
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The World has become too dangerous for anything less than Utopia.
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There is no joy equal to that of being able to work for all humanity and doing what you’re doing well.
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What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities.
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Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
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It is one of our most exciting discoveries that local discovery leads to a complex of further discoveries.
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The most important thing about Spaceship Earth – an instruction book didn’t come with it.
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Does humanity have a chance to survive lastingly and successfully on planet Earth, and if so, how?
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