My hope fuels my determination to overcome any difficulty.
— Lailah Gifty AkitaIf a free people is going to be reproduced, it will require watering and revivifying and owning anew older traditions and awaking the curiosity in the soul of each citizen. National greatness will not be recovered via a mindless expansion of bureaucratized schooling. Seventy years ago, Dorothy Sayers wrote, 'Sure, we demand another grant of money, we postpone the school leaving age and plan to build bigger and better schools. We demand that teachers further slave conscientiously in and out of school hours. But to what end? I believe,' Sayers lamented, 'all this devoted effort is largely frustrated because we have no definable goal for each child to become a fully formed adult. We have lost the tools of learning, sacrificing them to the piecemeal, subject matter approach of bureaucratized schooling that finally compromises to produce passive rather than active emerging adults. But our kids are not commodities, they are plants. They require a protected environment, and care, and feeding, but most basically, an internal yearning to grow toward the sunlight. What we need is the equipping of each child with those lost tools.
— Ben SasseThe thought of a man is futile. But the word of God is flawless.
— Lailah GiftySelf-liberation is the greatest victory.
— Lailah Gifty AkitaRun the race of life with all perseverance and endurance.
— Lailah Gifty AkitaI learned how to argue. They called it ‘Debate’. I learned how to worship. I learned how to become an eager worker and a passive consumer.But I didn’t learn anything practical, like how to purify water, build a home, start a fire, grow food, or survive without the help of corporations.
— Joss SheldonThis is not education my friend. It is a process of manufacturing computation devices that look like Homo sapiens, and thereby falsely labeled as Education.
— Abhijit NaskarOur stories must be written, shared and communicated.
— Lailah Gifty AkitaPositive goals lead to positive actions for purposeful life.
— Lailah Gifty AkitaThere is no limit to life. The only limit is the limit you put into life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita