My favorite quotes:

"The role of the new education is to facilitate one's access to one's own mind" RNakasone

"We were living in another world and when we died we were sent to this paradise, the Earth. The rich ones can not enjoy this paradise because they concentrate their life in staying rich; most poor people can not enjoy this paradise either because they are too busy trying to become rich. The Earth is a paradise because  we can enjoy nature for free; we can enjoy the sun for free and all we need to enjoy life is to be healthy." RNakasone

The Mayans say: "we are corn" and that saying drives their lives; we should all say: "we are peace", and we would never stay in acts of war because we could not be what we are not. Raul Nakasone

"We should work while the lazy ones are sleeping" said a friend from my childhood.

"The day you were born everybody was happy; only you were crying. Live your life in such a way that when you die, everybody cries and you be the only one with no reason to cry." Read when I was 14 in the Reade's Digest, don't remember the author.

"Integrity is to do the right thing even when none is watching" heard in graduation ceremony at Marshall M.S. 2007

"Men have said to me, 'you write about women's things', and I think: yes, there is a culture that I'm writing about," Woolfe says. "Men write about war, and being a soldier, but being a parent can be life changing as well, especially when you're juggling between that and a career that you love. It's not just about getting dinner on the table. It's about where your soul belongs, and how much you belong to each aspect of your life - and how that can change."Sue Woolfe

"If you realized that the nurtured spiritual part of yourself would accompany you on your eternal journey and that everything that you have labored so hard to accumulate would vanish the instant you depart this world, would it alter your daily agenda?" Walter Cooper

"Better than saying that in our program we trust in our students 100%; it is to say that we openly accept and value their courage to think out of the box." DR

"To know how to forgive is an enormous source of energy while maintaining anger shortens life and lowers its quality." RN

"When we always do our best, there is no room for defeats nor for repentance." RN

"The main role of the new education must be to facilitate the access to one's own mind."  Raul Nakasone

"To get older in good terms means to know that everything can always be done better and to be in peace with oneself and with everybody else." RN

"Competition breeds resentment and hostility, while collaboration breeds friendship and cooperation." By former student Javier Berrios


"The new school needs to promote thinking over believing and graduate thinkers instead of believers." RN

"the battle for liberation now is not in the fields; it is in the mind." Raul Nakasone

"The weak cannot forgive. Forgiveness is an attribute of the strong." Mahatma Gandhi

"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."
-Gandhi

"Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe simply because it has been handed down for many generations.  Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumoured by many.  Do not believe in anything simply because it is written in Holy Scriptures.  Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of teachers, elders or wise men.  Believe only after careful observation and analysis, when you find that it agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all. Then accept it and live up to it."
The Buddha, on Belief, from the Kalama Sutra.

"Changing limitations into opportunities is the work ahead" MGraney

"The most powerful man is the one who knows himself" Aristotheles

"The most powerful weapon the oppressor has in his hands is the mind of the oppressed" S.B.

"Hate crimes are, in reality, fear crimes."Ann Szwajkowski

``Imagination is more important than knowledge,'' Einstein

"The richest person in the world is the one who knows she has enough of everything." NN

"I believe that social justice is a consequence of a society formed by individuals who
are free from oppression".  (RN)

"I am not interested in organizing the oppressed ones under one leader because then
the leader, once in power, becomes the new oppressor." (RN)

"The main reason why I am in this program is just this, we learn by living."  Granty

"To escape a prison, it is necessary to see the prison itself." (From ACT therapy)

"If somebody does something wrong to you, send them flowers" Jason Martin

"The opposite of love is not hate, it is indifference." Patricia Parsons

"I think teaching out of duty rather than desire is a disaster, for the teacher and the taught." Sarah Pedersen

"We start teaching children how to fish, when they ask for it for the second time." NA Elder.

"We facilitate therapeutic sessions to those who are still addicted to teaching." Learners Anonimous (D,R,Y & P)

"You will be free the day you share what you know without being a missionary, a liberator or a developer." R.N.

"If you are learning and you are happy and you still think something is not right; it is
because you still believe that suffering is missing. One can learn without suffering." (D.R.)

"Not all priests are free from pedophilia; likewise, not all especialized in multiculturalism
are free from being racists."    (RN)

"Many times, teachers who speak most of the time in class, become a wall between the
learner and the knowledge she is seeking."  (RN)

"It is not true that a teacher can teach all her students; what is more certain is that the ones
who become interested will learn from her or from any other sources."  (RN)

"Just like many times the church has nothing to do with god; many times school has
nothing to do with education."   (RN)

"History is the lie commonly agreed upon."  Voltaire

"Education should be a road to freedom; not a highway to domestication." (R.N.)

"We don't learn by being told" (?)

"When THE answer to a problem is given, all learning stops." (Yvonne Peterson)

"Only the oppressed ones can liberate themselves and their oppressors."  (Paulo Freire)

"The open curriculum and direct teaching gives you the grades for school life; the hidden curriculum
and brain washing teaching gives you the knowledge for real life."  (R.N.)

"A wise person changes her/his mind; a fool, never." (Einstein)

"Luck is when preparation meets opportunity". (Abraham Lincoln)

"Enjoy life because you will be dead for a long time."  (?)

"In the final analysis, everything is about you and God; not about you and them." (Mother Theresa)

"An education system for the people does not encourage brain drain."  (R.N.)