Places That Buzz At Noon

Places That Close Early

Places That Feel Abandoned

Convert

Create Belonging

Create More Than They Consume

Create More Than They Contain

Create Their Own Communities

Depend On Cooperation

Improve A Neighborhood

Improve By Being Nearby

Improve Their Surroundings

Make Good Ancestors

Make Good Descendants

Need A Human Scale

Only Exist Because People Cooperate

Outlive Their Creator

Outlive Their Makers

Reward Placement

Turn Responsibility Into Legacy

Turn Strangers Into History

Turn Strangers Into Neighbors

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fish

intelligence

spelling

witch

test

omelet

geography

running

swimming

tree

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Albert Einstein

Hawaii

trivia

phobia

pick-up line

grades

Cockney Rhyming Slang

purpose

blackboard

sleeping

paying attention

pilot

one-liner

nonsense question

napping

assignment

presentation

student

Corona Virus

lockdown

clock time

time

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class

backpack

architecture

1980s

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Kentucky Fried Chicken

child

working

YOLO

9 to 5

adulthood

music

piano

faking it

punishment

suspension from school

principal

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paying taxes

computer

childhood

doctor

is a jail... it's where you go between when your parents can't take you and industry can't take you.

where you go between when your parents can't take you and industry can't take you.

is a production of a non-skilled underclass because it is a government monopoly.

In the current world, with the skills needed, dropouts [like no secondary education] are condemned to being members of the underclass. In my view, this is a fault of the American school system, which is a government monopoly. Milton Friedman

is an institution built on the disproven axiom that learning is the result of teaching.

School is an institution built on the axiom that learning is the result of teaching. And institutional wisdom continues to accept this axiom, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary. (Ivan Illich)

is concerned with the spreading out of education sufficiently thin to give everyone enough to make him a more competent fool than he would have been without it.

As a means of dispensing formulated ignorance our boasted public school system is not without merit... it spreads out education sufficiently thin to give everyone enough to make him a more competent fool than he would have been without it.

is mainly an institution of control where certain basic habits must be inculcated in the young. Education is quite different and has little place in school.

Schools have not necessarily much to do with education. . . they are mainly institutions of control where certain basic habits must be inculcated in the young. Education is quite different and has little place in school. Winston Churchill

is the opposite of prison. Every time a society stops a school it will have to build a jail.

Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail. It won't fatten the dog. Mark Twain

is a place that often doesn't teach how to think but how to reproduce what past thinkers thought.

In school we were not taught how to think... we were taught to reproduce what past thinkers thought. (Michael Michalko)

is an institution that serves the same social functions as prisons and mental institutions to define, classify, control, and regulate people.

Schools serve the same social functions as prisons and mental institutionsto define, classify, control, and regulate people. Michel Foucault

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