“ We are against ignorance. We feel that you have to educate yourself, no matter what the situation is. People who refuse to educate themselves - people who refuse to find out what something is about, t… Zeena Schreck
“ Thinking for yourself and making your own decisions can be frightening. Letting go of other people’s expectations can leave you feeling empty for a time. And yet seeing yourself as an independent adul… Ellen Bass
“ Somebody is born. Somebody goes to school. Somebody learns to conform. Somebody types a CV. Somebody gets a job. Somebody follows orders. Somebody gets a golden watch. And then, eventually, Somebody d… Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“ My son, I don’t believe in God, prayer, afterlife or miracles. You may disagree with me on all of these. I’d prefer that you agree and reserve rebellion and independence over important issues instead. Brian Spellman
“ Heterogeneous BoDs with independent thinking enforce governance, and diversity strengthens creativity. Pearl Zhu
“ School overpopulates students’ minds with too much of what happened yesterday; seldom with what the students can do today, or, tomorrow. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“ It is true that many young people who wrongly, that is, simply with abandon and unsolitarily, feel the oppressiveness of a failure and want to make the situation in which they have landed viable and f… Rainer Maria Rilke
“ But that so many scholars are barbarians does not much matter so long as a few of them are ready to help with their specialized knowledge the few independent thinkers, that is to say the poets, who tr… Robert Graves
“ Anxiety, and the physical symptoms it causes, is merely fog along the path of independence and discovery. Charles F. Glassman