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During the century that gave us Dewey, Montessori, Steiner, and Piaget (among many others), the testing infrastructure changed primarily in response to advances in technology and the needs of bureaucrats not in response to advances from the learning sciences that were progressively revealing the nature of how educational processes ought to be structured.
Education in a Time Between Worlds
Zachary Stein
Once far enough removed, everyone will be properly aghast that any of this was allowed to happen. But for now, it’s just so much safer to look away, to keep one’s head down, periodically checking on the balance of polite society to see if it is not too troublesome yet to state what to the conscience was never unclear.
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
Omar el Akkad
If my body’s heart ceases to function I cannot survive; but if the sun, my other heart, ceases to function, I will also die immediately. We should be able to be our true self. That means we should be able to be the river, we should be able to be the forest, we should be able to be a citizen of any country in the world. We must do this to understand, and to have hope for the future. That is the nondualistic way of seeing.
Being Peace
Thich Nhat Hanh
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