Open Your Mind's Eye

Ask and you may receive...   "This is what you shall do; Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body."
- Walt Whitman

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    Nine dangerous things you were taught in school →

    thecalmb4dawn:

    1. The people in charge have all the answers.
    That’s why they are so wealthy and happy and healthy and powerful—ask any teacher.

    2. Learning ends when you leave the classroom.
    Your fort building, trail forging, frog catching, friend making, game playing, and drawing won’t earn you any extra credit. Just watch TV.

    3. The best and brightest follow the rules.
    You will be rewarded for your subordination, just not as much as your superiors, who, of course, have their own rules.

    4. What the books say is always true.
    Now go read your creationism chapter. There will be a test.

    5. There is a very clear, single path to success.
    It’s called college. Everyone can join the top 1% if they do well enough in school and ignore the basic math problem inherent in that idea.

    6. Behaving yourself is as important as getting good marks.
    Whistle-blowing, questioning the status quo, and thinking your own thoughts are no-nos. Be quiet and get back on the assembly line.

    7. Standardized tests measure your value.
    By value, I’m talking about future earning potential, not anything else that might have other kinds of value.

    8. Days off are always more fun than sitting in the classroom.
    You are trained from a young age to base your life around dribbles of allocated vacation. Be grateful for them.

    9. The purpose of your education is your future career.
    And so you will be taught to be a good worker. You have to teach yourself how to be something more.

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    meandyoumeandyou:

this is how I think I look and actually feel when I’m drunk…..
Thank you Madonna.

    meandyoumeandyou:

    this is how I think I look and actually feel when I’m drunk…..

    Thank you Madonna.

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Chloe Sevigny and Steve Buscemi, 1996.

    Chloe Sevigny and Steve Buscemi, 1996.

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    #Chloe