Educational Fine Print

Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't. - Pete Seeger


Never get in such a hurry that you fail to educate yourself.


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Guarantee of Performance

A demand for commitment without a guarantee of performance is domination, not service. - John Hayward


Most laws written by most governments fall under this statement.


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Newborn Education

The greatness of the human personality begins at the hour of birth. From this almost mystic affirmation there comes what may seem a strange conclusion: that education must start from birth. - Maria Montessori


And don't be fooled into thinking a newborn can't learn!


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Plan with Attitude

Successful people rarely confuse a can-do attitude with a smart plan. But they realize that one without the other is unlikely to get you very far. - Seth Godin


One with the other will likely get far.


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Imaginative Science

We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry. - Maria Montessori 


Remember Computer Science is indeed a science.


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Force and Violence

Violence is wrong precisely because it is a species of force. Since the principle of individual rights is the principle which banishes force from human relations — let’s reestablish it. - Amit Ghate


Note that laws are enforced by threat of violence.


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Train of Thought

Real, constructive mental power lies in the creative thought that shapes your destiny, and your hour-by-hour mental conduct produces power for change in your life. Develop a train of thought on which to ride. The nobility of your life as well as your happiness depends upon the direction in which that train of thought is going. - Laurence J. Peter


And keep that train a-rollin'......


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Thinking Civilized

Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses. - Georges Bernanos


"Acting civilized"  is as much a thinking activity as it is a physical activity.


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Good vs. Evil

The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil. - Maria Montessori


Instead, public schools teach tolerance, which comes from the philosophy that you should not judge.


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The Power of Self-Respect

To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect. - Joan Didion 


If you are not free from the expectations of others you are a slave.


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Humanitarian Hypocrisy

A humanitarian is always a hypocrite. - George Orwell


...or worse. I will be doing an augmented post on this subject.


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Discipline Must Come Through Liberty

Discipline must come through liberty. . . . We do not consider an individual disciplined only when he has been rendered as artificially silent as a mute and as immovable as a paralytic. He is an individual annihilated, not disciplined. - Maria Montessori


Though she was thinking about the education of children, I think that the same is worth considering about employees.


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Walking With The Days

And in today already walks tomorrow. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge


And the shadow of the past walks with you every day.


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