“History never looks like history when you are living through it.”
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We are all faced with a series of great opportunities - brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.
The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursing his own education. This will not be a widely shared pursuit until we get over our odd conviction that education is what goes on in school buildings and nowhere else.
One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.
It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government.
