When we realize the degree of agency we actually do have, we no longer have to "hope" at all. We simply do the work.

a real partnership in which all parties help all others to be more fully themselves

A culture that values production over life values the wrong things, because it will produce things at the expense of living beings, human or otherwise.

I've since come to understand the reason school lasts thirteen years. It takes that long to sufficiently break a child's will. It is not easy to disconnect children's wills, to disconnect them from their own experiences of the world in preparation for the lives of painful employment they will have to endure.

Many Indians have told me that the most basic difference between Western and indigenous ways of being is that Westerners view the world as dead, and not as filled with speaking, thinking, feeling subjects as worthy and valuable as themselves.

Civilization can never be sustainable.

The task we all face as human beings ... is to find and become who we are. The task teachers face is to find their own way of teaching, one that manifests who they are.