I realized a school doesn't need a School Committee or Trustees or Governors or lumber or approved textbooks. All a school needs is a mind that sends and minds that receive. I shall teach my own students how to teach themselves. My own school. No buildings. Break out of the classroom prison. All I need is SKY. The Universe can be my classroom - the great vast world of the Concord countryside.
Henry David ThoreauThough the hen should sit all day, she could lay only one egg, and, besides, would not have picked up materials for another.
Henry David ThoreauThat government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.
Henry David ThoreauIf we knew all the laws of Nature, we should need only fact, or the description of one actual phenomenon, to infer all the particular results at that point.
Henry David Thoreau