Skaramall Quotes & Sayings

When children are stripped of a primary experience base as confinement schooling must do to justify its existence, the natural sequence of learning is destroyed, a sequence which puts experience first. — John Taylor Gatto

What an advantage that knowledge can be stored in books! The knowledge lies there like hermetically sealed provisions waiting for the day when you may need a meal. Surely what the Collector was doing as he pored over his military manuals, was proving the superiority of the European way of doing things, of European culture itself. This was a culture so flexible that whatever he needed was there in a book at his elbow. An ordinary sort of man, he could, with the help of an oil-lamp, turn himself into a great military engineer, a bishop, an explorer or a General overnight, if the fancy took him. — J.G. Farrell

Every citizen will be able, in his productive years when he is earning, to insure himself against the ravages of illness in his old age. — Lyndon B. Johnson

God looks at the anxious and says, I tore my Son to shreds for you, and you're afraid I will not give you what you need? — Timothy Keller

It is an extreme perversion of capitalism if you can trade in something before you have even paid for it. — James Dyson

The first, and overarching, count in the new indictment is that slavery permitted one group of people to exercise unrestrained personal domination over another group of people. — Robert Fogel

May we all grow in grace and peace and not neglect the silence that is printed in the center of our being. It will not fail us. — Thomas Merton

I can ride horses. And I read a lot. But that's kind of it. I think it's enough. — Alice Englert