“Enlightenment (or not) is an evolutionary process”

“We are Energy, trapped in a bag of blood and guts.”

“If you don't learn your lessons, you become one for everyone else”

“The Folklore process is like playing a centuries-long game of "telephone.”

“We are in the process of disabling our most distinctive achievement - our educational system - in the name of making the country more like itself.”

“We have to go from what is essentially an industrial model of education, a manufacturing model, which is based on linearity and conformity and batching people. We have to move to a model that is based more on principles of agriculture. We have to recognize that human flourishing is not a mechanical process; it's an organic process. And you cannot predict the outcome of human development. All you can do, like a farmer, is create the conditions under which they will begin to flourish.”

“Utopia is the process of making a better world, the name for one path history can take, a dynamic, tumultuous, agonizing process, with no end. Struggle forever.”