Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett
English political leader, activist, writer and feminist icon. Known as a campaigner for women's suffrage via legislative change, from 1897 until 1919 she led Britain's largest women's rights organisation, the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies.
The road between the past and the future is long, but it continues unbroken.
Relative to their beginnings, many will find just enough comfort and stop, and often block traffic.
If you rise in class. Your teachers will fight you, because they just want to do their job, go home, and get paid.
If you rise in class. They will say you are disrupting the class and throw you out, because they just want you to shut up so they can finish their job and go watch some TV.
You can talk to the Principal or Dean, but they'll just tag you as "Gifted" and you'll graduate from Adult Ed so fast you'll struggle to remember where it all started and what the battle was for.
Because The Battle Is Not For You
The battle is for those that come; after you.
In short term, you get a sweet sliver of solace as you learn that in the end all your troubles ended up counting towards protecting others from the same.
In long term, you help the world grow, it won't be your world, it will be the world of the future.
The battle for real education, and enjoying the fruits of real education are two separate things.
It will make you tired.
How dare you? You have stolen my dreams and my childhood.
Bad News
There are very few Alternate Education resources, and as you rise you realize that the Start-up Accelerator rates are extremely low, almost too low.
Nothing, nothing is as sweet and easy as putting up with broken education, the broken rules, the status quo, staying in school, getting some "good" grades, making your parents happy.
Nothing is as easy as forgetting all of that ever happened, and make up excuses after excuses, forgetting everyone and everything, and never looking back.
Alas, Dear Henry comes to our rescue.
Quote by Henry David Thoreau
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite necessary.
I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms...
The Good News
Real Education, is not about getting really educated.
It is about Your Life, Dignity, Authenticity, Health.
Life that revolves around sweet and easy and making everyone else happy is not a healthy life.
Faith of the Heart
Article One: Inherent Dignity, Nobility.
The first and foremost, you must Retain Your Dignity, and your Nobility.
No one is to treat you as means to their end, to their paycheck, or vacation, or else.
You are not to be silenced, you are not to go quietly into the night, you are to rage, to rage against the dying of the light.
Self Education starts With Life Changing Books
Best way to understand a book, is to listen to the Author reading it. And the best way to listen to a book, is while climbing a great mountain.
A Short History of Nearly Everything
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
The Physics of Superheroes
Mind Mapping
The best tool to refine your vision is Mind Mapping. Visit List of concept and mind-mapping software for more.
Visit Cmap Homepage at Florida Institute for Human & Machine Cognition (IHMC) for a free download.
Want to learn better? Start mind mapping
How to Mind Map
Mind Map vs Concept Map
Concept Mapping with Cmap
Concept Maps 1
Concept Maps 2
Behavior-Driven Development (BDD)
The best programming language for Leaders, is English. In BDD context, a structured subset of English.
You can write you entire program in BDD, and coordinate your team at the same time.
In the world of computers, teams can be distributed across the entire world. Some teams, can have revolving doors. And sometimes you may not even need doors, as you can post a BDD Test Issue on Bounty Source or similar.
What is Behavior Driven Development?
Learning Online and Tool Examples
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