(Last month's started a little late, I thought I'd bring it back to its original schedule.)
A monthly thread for posting any interesting rationality-related quotes you've seen recently on the Internet, or had stored in your quotesfile for ages.
Please post all quotes separately (so that they can be voted up (or down) separately) unless they are strongly related/ordered.
Do not quote yourself (or your sockpuppets).
Do not quote comments/posts on LW/OB - if we do this, there should be a separate thread for it.
No more than 5 quotes per person per monthly thread, please.
I haven't read it, but I have read quite a bit of other
things by John Holt.
He is known mainly as a theorist of education (the title of
the above-quoted book may be a reference to a teacher trying
to plan class activities) but he would probably say that he
was interested in learning, and interested in education
only inasmuch as it helps or hinders learning. He is the
primary initiator of the
"unschooling"
philosophy of homeschooling.
(Last month's started a little late, I thought I'd bring it back to its original schedule.)
A monthly thread for posting any interesting rationality-related quotes you've seen recently on the Internet, or had stored in your quotesfile for ages.