#ogres

From the will of a freedom-fighter, Farzad Kamangar: "Is it possible to be a teacher and not show the path to the sea to the little fish of the country? Is it possible to carry the heavy burden of being a teacher and be responsible for spreading the seeds of knowledge and still be silent? Is it possible to see the lumps in the throats of the students and witness their thin and malnourished faces and keep quiet? … I cannot imagine witnessing the pain and poverty of the people of this land and fail to give our hearts to the river and the sea, to the roar and the flood. ↗

— Samad Beh-Rang

#pedagogy #progressive #ruby-emam #the-little-black-fish #freedom

We do not have to be ashamed of what we are. As sentient beings we have wonderful backgrounds. These backgrounds may not be particularly enlightened or peaceful or intelligent. Nevertheless, we have soil good enough to cultivate; we can plant anything in it. ↗

— Chögyam Trungpa

#background #confidence #cultivation #development #enlightenment

Progress should never be impeded by a need to coddle adults who respond to the world as children. ↗

— Kelli Jae Baeli

#children #maturity #philosophy-of-life #progress #life

Men are in fact, quite unable to control their own inventions; they at best develop adaptability to the new conditions those inventions create. ↗

— John Galsworthy

#men

Progress is something with no pity, and no purpose. It just happens. It chews up all you ever knew, and spits out things you can't understand, and the only value it seems to have is to make a few people a lot of money. ↗

— Spider Robinson

#money

Girls you've gotta know when it's time to turn the page. ↗

— Tori Amos

#moving-on #music #progress #music

Respect is the lifeblood of progress, and the safe harbor of humanity's great aspirations. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#progress #respect #respect

What was the point of scientific advance without moral advance? The railway would merely permit more people to move about, meet and be stupid together ↗

— Julian Barnes

#progress #science #stupidity #science

The most important lesson of New Labour is this: Every time we made progress we did it by challenging the conventional wisdom. ↗

— Ed Miliband

#conventional #conventional wisdom #did #every #every time

But with the slow menace of a glacier, depression came on. No one had any measure of its progress; no one had any plan for stopping it. Everyone tried to get out of its way. ↗

— Frances Perkins

#came #depression #everyone #get #glacier