Little #96D7AF Books

"If you have a [potato] garden and an [Open Access] library, you have everything you need." - Cicero [modified]

"I know the home-based bookshelf is emotionally attractive to many who fancy themselves to be intellectuals. But if you are really that smart, why are you paying dearly for something that you can get for free?" - Mr. Money Mustache

"Yet one of the most remarkable things that Sahlberg said passed practically unnoticed. 'And', he mentioned at one point, 'there are no private schools in Finland.' [...] There are no private universities offering Finnish degrees. The implications of all this are profound. Even though other choices are available, practically every person in Finland still attends public school, whether for pre-K or a PhD. How is this possible? In a way the answer is simple: Finland has enshrined the right to a high-quality, free education for all citizens in the Finnish constitution, and has held itself to that commitment as a society." - Anu Partanen, The Nordic Theory of Everything

"Knowledge is not the personal property of its discoverer, but the common property of all. As we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours, and this we should do freely and generously.” - Ben Franklin

"There is no patent. Could you patent the sun?" - Jonas Salk

"Where some people measure progress in answers-right-per-test or tests-passed-per-year, we are more interested in Sistine-Chapel-Ceilings-per-Lifetime."- Alan Kay

"Democracy rests on an ideal of equality in which everyone has a voice. Patriarchy, although frequently misinterpreted to mean the oppression of women by men, literally means a hierarchy -- a rule of priests -- in which the priest, the hieros, is a father. It describes an order of living that elevates fathers, separating fathers from sons (the men from the boys) and men from women, and placing both children and women under a father's authority. With the renaissance of women's voices in the late twentieth century, with sons questioning the authority of fathers, especially with respect to war, with the revolution in technology reducing the need for a priesthood by providing direct access to knowledge, the foundations of patriarchy were eroding." - Carol Gilligan, The Birth of Pleasure