Laurence J. Peter (16 September 1919 –1990) was a Canadian educator and management theorist, best known for having formulated the “Peter Principle”, a theory of incompetence in management (see here). 🟨 “Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.” 🟨 “Originality is the fine art of remembering… Read More L.J. Peter
Russell Baker (14 August 1925 – 2019) was an American newspaper columnist, author, humorist, and political satirist, who used good-natured humour to comment slyly and trenchantly on a wide range of social and political matters.He won two Pulitzer Prizes, one in journalism in1979 , and the other four years later for his autobiography “Growing Up”… Read More Things
“The paradox of education is precisely this – that as one begins to become conscious, one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated. The purpose of education, finally, is to create in a person the ability to look at the world for himself, to make his own decisions […] But no… Read More James Baldwin/1: The Paradox of Education
HAPIf but some vengeful god would call to meFrom up the sky, and laugh: ” Thou suffering thing,Know that thy sorrow is my ecstasy,That thy love’s loss is my hate’s profiting!” Then would I bear it, clench myself, and die,Steeled by the sense of ire unmerited;Half-eased in that a Powerfuller than IHad willed and meted… Read More Hap
“The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.” Sydney J. Harris (September 14, 1917 –1986) American journalist. (Lo scopo della scuola è quello di trasformare gli specchi in finestre)
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