Top Highlights

• Learning in general happens best in a warm, supportive atmosphere, in which there exists a feeling of safety, of being supported and cared about, of closeness and connection.
• A human being is a part of a whole, called by us the Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest—a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness... Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living cr...
• With reductionism comes a natural bias toward analysis over synthesis, studying the pieces in isolation or analyzing subjects within arbitrary academic boundaries, like the separation of math from social studies or economics from psychology.
• factory model we have inherited through the Industrial Age, school was never about tapping and cultivating this innate potential. It was never about growing human beings—it was designed to train factory workers en masse.
• There also need to be clear milestones along the journey, using examples of student success to foster emotional salience in concert with more quantifiable