#3D(ii)

and,
“Easier than thinking with surrender of already formed ideas and detachment from facts already learned is just to stick by what is already said, looking for something with which to buttress it with attack.”
--John Dewey

#3D(i)

also,
“It is never too late to give up prejudices. No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without proof.”
--Henry David Thoreau, Walden

#3C

“Where is this division of labor to end? And what object does it finally serve? No doubt another may also think for me; but it is not therefore desirable that he should do so to the exclusion of thinking for myself.”
--Henry David Thoreau, Walden

#3B

“I personally believe that U.S. Americans are unable to do so because, uh, some, people out there in our nation don't have maps and, uh, I believe that our, uh, education like such as, uh, South Africa and, uh, the Iraq, everywhere like such as, and, I believe that they should, our education over here in the U.S. should help the U.S., uh, or, uh, should help South Africa and should help the Iraq and the Asian countries, so we will be able to build up our future, for our [children].”
--Caitlin Upton, 2007 Miss South Carolina Teen USA in response to the question: “Recent polls have shown a fifth of Americans can't locate the U.S. on a world map. Why do you think this is?”

#3A

“If we were to conceive our educational end and aim in a less exclusive way, if we were to introduce into educational processes the activities which appeal to those whose dominant interest is to do and to make, we should find the hold of the school upon its members to be more vital, more prolonged, containing more of culture. … This transformation is not something to appear suddenly to be executed in a day by conscious purpose. … When the school introduces and trains each child of society into membership within such a little community, saturating him with the spirit of service, and providing him with the instruments of effective self-direction, we shall have the deepest and best guaranty of a larger society which is worthy, lovely, and harmonious.”
--John Dewey, The School and Society, 20.

#2B

also,
"Change is not accomplished by peeling off superficial layers when the causes are rooted deeply in the heart of the organism."
--Martin Luther King, Jr. (The Nation, 1964)

#2A

"The authentic human being is one of us who instinctively knows what he should not do, and, in addition, he will balk at doing it. He will refuse to do it, even if this brings down dread consequences to him and to those whom he loves. This, to me, is the ultimately heroic trait of ordinary people; they say no to the tyrant and they calmly take the consequences of this resistance. Their deeds may be small, and almost always unnoticed, unmarked by history. Their names are not remembered, nor did these authentic humans expect their names to be remembered. I see their authenticity in an odd way: not in their willingness to perform great heroic deeds but in their quiet refusals. In essence, they cannot be compelled to be what they are not. "
-- Philip K. Dick, e-mailed to me by Noah

#1

"I hate having conversations when I'm sober. I'm just--so awkward."
--girl overheard while studying