Extraordinary Discourse Podcast

Deal With Wild Cards The future is a trickster rabbit, full of surprises. Only the past is predictable. Bobby Goodspeed

Beyond Good and Éveillé That erroneous assumption is to the effect that the aim of public education is to fill the young of the species with knowledge and awaken their intelligence, and so make them fit to discharge the duties of citizenship in an enlightened and independent manner. Nothing could be further from the truth. The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed and train a standardized citizenry, to put down dissent and originality. That is its aim in the United States, whatever the pretensions of politicians, pedagogues and other such mountebanks, and that is its aim everywhere else. H.L. Mencken 

Thought Goodies For Smart Humanist Millennials Status quos are made to be broken. Ray A. Davis

Brains Out Learn, Learn, Learn. Slavoj Zizek

Thought Dagwood Sandwich The lazy man gets round the sun as quickly as the busy one. R. T. Wombat

Free Radical on Sabbatical We must act as if our institutions are ours to create, our learning is ours to define, our leadership we seek is ours to become. Peter Block 

Youtopaideia If we remain wedded to the way education is currently provided we cannot imagine other ways... we need some imagination, some fantasy, some new ways of thinking - some magic in fact. Hedley Beare  Prof of Educ Melbourne