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.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERThere 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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Ninety-nine percent of humanity does not know that we have the option to “make it” economically on this planet and in the Universe. We do.
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Instead, humans will spontaneously take upon themselves those tasks that world society really needs to have done.
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The assumption is that the inevitability of a solution’s realization is inherent in the interaction of human intellect and the constantly transformative evolution of physical universe.
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American labor will realize that its function is not to increase jobs, but to multiply the wealth and to expand the numbers benefited by the wealth at the swiftest possible rate.
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The individual can take initiatives without anybody’s permission. Only individuals can think. Only the individual disregards his fears and commits himself exclusively to reforming the human environment.
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I say that radiation is inherently disintegrative: it comes apart. Gravity is inherently integrative: it pulls together. And to me, there’s a good possibility that love is what I’d call metaphysical gravity. It really holds everything together.
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Coping with the totality of Spaceship Earth and universe is ahead for all of us.
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You can’t learn less.
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Each one of us has something to contribute. This really depends on each one doing their own thinking, but not following any kind of rule.
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Geniuses are just people who had good mothers.
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Think of it. We are blessed with technology that would be indescribable to our forefathers. We have the wherewithal, the know-it-all to feed everybody, clothe everybody, and give every human on Earth a chance.
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Truth is the progressive diminution of residual error.
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Specialization breeds biases that ultimately aggregate as international and ideological discord, which, in turn, leads to war.
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Every child has an enormous drive to demonstrate competence.
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We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living.
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