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School of everything

Submitted by Andy Gavin on Sat, 2008-07-26 13:59

I recently came across The School of Everything socially networking students and teachers. Want to learn a new skill, you can find someone in your area that can teach you. It's never been a better time to learn. Their vision sounds like a manifesto for a new education, bottom-up education.

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Seven blunders of the world

Submitted by Andy Gavin on Wed, 2005-11-30 00:47
  1. Wealth without work
  2. Pleasure without conscience
  3. Knowledge without character
  4. Commerce without morality
  5. Science without humanity
  6. Worship without sacrifice
  7. Politics without principle

—Mahatma Gandhi

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The Gladiator

Submitted by Andy Gavin on Fri, 2005-11-25 12:24


It is not the critic who counts, not the man
who points out how the strongman stumbled,
or where the doer of deeds could have done
them better. The credit belongs to the man
who is actually in the arena; whose face is
marred by dust and sweat and blood; who
strives valiantly; who errs and comes short
again and again; who knows the great
enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends
himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best,
knows in the end the triumph of high
achievement, and who, at the worst, if he
fails, at least fails while daring greatly; so
that his place shall never be with those cold

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"If" by Rudyard Kipling

Submitted by Andy Gavin on Wed, 2005-11-23 20:58


If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or, being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;


If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with triumph and disaster
And treat those two imposters just the same;

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