One Nation Under Siege
“The purpose of education is to change the thoughts, actions, and feelings of students. Hitler wanted to control the education system in Germany, Stalin did in Russia, and Mao Zedong in China. You have...
View ArticleQuiet Rage: The Stanford Prison Experiment
“It’s important not to think of this as prisoner and guard in a real prison. The important issue is the metaphor prisoner and guard. What does it mean to be a prisoner? What does it mean to be a guard?...
View ArticleSex, Drugs, and Democracy
“If true freedom were readily available and could be found without great effort, how is it possible that it should be neglected by almost everyone? But all things excellent are as difficult as they are...
View ArticleStupid in America
“American schools don’t teach as well as schools in other countries because they are government monopolies, and monopolies don’t have much incentive to compete. In Belgium, by contrast, the money is...
View ArticleN is a Number: A Portrait of Paul Erdös
“I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier...
View ArticleHow Does Your Memory Work?
“Remembering feels very simple, we just do it. It’s like breathing. Just like you don’t know how you breathe, you don’t know how you remember.”You might think that your memory is there to help you...
View ArticleRevolution OS
“The crucial point about GNU is that it’s free software and free software refers not to price, but to freedom. So think of free speech, not free beer. The freedoms that I’m talking about are the...
View ArticleSecret of Oz, The
“In the book version of The Wizard of Oz, Dorothy’s slippers are made of silver as opposed to in the film version, where Dorothy’s slippers are made of rubber. You take away the silver slippers on the...
View ArticleWeather Underground, The
“I think that part of the Weathermen phenomena that was right was our understanding of what the position of the United States is in the world. It was this knowledge that we just couldn’t handle, it was...
View ArticleStatus Anxiety
“The past two hundred years in the West have seen staggering increases in wealth and economic opportunity, and yes, there have been no comparable increases in our level of happiness. Despite being so...
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