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.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERControlled time is our true wealth.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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It is the consensus of great scientists that science is the attempt to set in order the facts of experience.
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The wave is not the water. The water merely told us about the wave moving by.
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The Universe consists of non-simultaneously apprehended events.
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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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Quite clearly, our task is predominantly metaphysical, for it is how to get all of humanity to educate itself swiftly enough to generate spontaneous social behaviors that will avoid extinction.
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I live on Earth at present, and I don’t know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing – a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process – an integral function of the universe.
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Only ten years ago the ‘more with less’ technology reached the point where this could be done. All humanity now has the option to become enduringly successful.
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Nature is all that we think we know plus all that we don’t know whether or not we know that we don’t know it.
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This will bring out the real you that often gets buried inside a character that has acquired a superficial array of behaviors induced or imposed by others on the individual.
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How much does your building weigh? A question often used to challenge architects to consider how efficiently materials were used for the space enclosed.
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When I’m working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem.
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You don’t belong to you. You belong to the Universe and you’re here to serve.
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Pollution is merely a resource that isn’t being used properly.
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The more for whom we strive to serve, the greater effectiveness we will have.
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There is something patently insane about all the typewriters sleeping with all the beautiful plumbing in the beautiful office buildings -and all the people sleeping in the slums.
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