I have a friend who for over 30 years has traveled the world getting well known people to sign a "declaration of human unity".

To know is to bring light to a situation; to enlighten; to understand; to make visible. There are many ways to bring the light of knowledge to bear on something.

Most distance education is training, not education.

We are born with true wealth, but constantly forget to realize the wealth we already have.

being real / special experience / birth of the church / why institutions distort reality / judgements & spiritual ego / "the right way" / the beginning of dogma / and more...

Americ Azevedo had 500 students in his Introduction to Computers course at the University of California, Berkeley. Despite that, his teaching philosophy embodies the principles of the Socratic method.

Sometimes I find life kind of overwhelming. On those days, I really like to go to the woods.

It’s been said, "He who dies with the most toys, wins!" This is both true and not true. Some say, “Money does not matter,” but quietly and privately we fear poverty. Fear of homelessness, hunger, and a drop in social status drives many to an insane focus on money—at any cost.

Students at universities become mainly focused on "practical knowledge" that leads to high paid jobs. The values by which we guide our technological development and application become afterthoughts. We must wonder if technology now controls human life more than humans control technology.