March 30, 2024

“know the names of five grasses, five birds, five trees, etc. local to your area, and be able to recognize them.”

1:42 AM

“know which food is in season and how much oil, water, and fertilizer it takes to grow/raise the food (out of season, out of location) and how it is sensitive to Liebig's Law of the minimum.”

1:42 AM

“grow and sustain a garden without using pesticides, hybrid seeds, chemical-based fertilizer, etc. A garden and indeed any system will achieve maximum integrity when it is in balance, and when growth is stable and resilient without ongoing external interference.”

1:42 AM

“Education is supposed to transform and build the character, mind, and body of the students.”

1:48 AM

“The point of an education is to learn a systematic way of improving those aspects--exercising, researching, and figuring things out to build a foundation for continued learning for the rest of one's life, so that one may live his life to the fullest extent possible.”

1:49 AM

“Learning must become a habit (see [Ergodicity and destiny](#filepos183429)) that is applied to all aspects of life before it can be said that a person is truly an educated person.”

1:50 AM

“Now, there are many ways of measuring experience, the most popular being tenure. However, working in the same place for five years does not imply five years of experience. If you've been doing exactly the same thing, day in and day out for five years, and it only took a day to learn, you have one day's experience, five years over.”

1:57 AM

“People remember most of what they do, some of what they say, but little of what they see or hear”

1:59 AM