If you care about yourself, you should care about learning - even learning simple things. You come to have pride in yourself only by accomplishing things, even from fixing some old stairs...Others can't grant you self-respect, even others who care about you. You have to earn self-respect yourself.
Terry GoodkindCulture carries no privilege to exist. Cultures do not have value simply because they are. Some cultures, the world is better off without.
Terry Goodkind