November 2009
23 posts
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“I find it fascinating that most people plan their vacations with better care...”
– Jim Rohn (via fundamentallife)
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The Growing Backlash Against Overparenting →
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“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
– Mark Twain
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Unschooling - Wikipedia →
Unschooling refers to a range of educational philosophies and practices centering around allowing children to learn through their natural life experiences, including child directed play, game play, household responsibilities, and social interaction, rather than through the confines of a conventional school. Exploration of activities is often led by the children themselves, facilitated by the...
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Free Range Kids - Wikipedia →
Free Range Kids, a.k.a., Slow parenting is a parenting style of fewer organised activities for children, instead allowing them to enjoy their childhood and explore the world at their own pace.
It is a response to Concerted cultivation and the widespread trend for parents to schedule activities and classes after school every day and every weekend, to solve problems on behalf of the children,...
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“The true purpose of education should not be to fill the heads of the future...”
– unknown (via maluna)
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We Feel Fine →
Will be an awesome book.
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“Everyone wants to change the world, but nobody wants to change.”
– (via myheartwillfly)
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If we could shrink the earth's population to a...
(via diedinyourarms, wildhearts, qomaspeakup)
If we could shrink the earth’s population to a village of precisely 100 people, with all the existing human ratios remaining the same, it would look something like the following.
There would be:
57 Asians 21 Europeans 14 from the Western Hemisphere, both north and south 8 Africans
52 would be female 48 would be male
70 would be non-white 30...
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“He who angers you, conquers you.”
– E. Kenny (via maluna)
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“Before our white brothers came to civilize us we had no jails. Therefore we had no criminals. You can’t have criminals without a jail. We had no locks or keys, and so we had no thieves. If a man was so poor that he had no horse, tipi or blanket, someone gave him these things. We were too uncivilized to set much value on personal belongings. We wanted to have things only in order to give...
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“Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.”
– A Course In Miracles (via m-altruism)
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Slacker →
This is such an amazing amazing film. Although it has a seemingly random plot (really, what plot?), it is quite thought provoking. By the time it was over I had written some four pages of my thoughts— not just about the film.
The “Should have stayed at bus station” guy (it’s in the credits!) in the beginning, his philosophical insight pretty much sets up the film.
Basically,...
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“Things do not change; we change.”
– Henry David Thoreau (via fuckyeahzenmind)
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The Ascent of Everest - A Threnody (For the...
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This is what I've been trying to tell everyone! →
railways:
(via theanniehour)
This is terrible!
Why did it take us so long to realize that plastic bags are bad?
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Circular cause and consequence →
Circular cause and consequence is a logical fallacy where the consequence of the phenomenon is claimed to be its root cause. It is exemplified in the question, “Which came first, the chicken or the egg?”
