
Lonely Dissent http://lesswrong.com/lw/mb/lonely_dissent/ (December 2007)
Kenneth Boulding (1957) "A New Look at Institutionalism". In: The American Economic Review Vol 47, no.2, p. 3 as cited in: Klimina, Anna, (2008) " On misuse of the term “institutionalist” in the analysis of Russian academic economics of the late 19th and early 20th centuries: the case of Michail Tugan-Baranovsky (1865-1919) http://www.accessecon.com/pubs/EB/2008/Volume2/EB-08B10002A.pdf" Economics Bulletin, Vol. 2, No. 2 pp. 2
1950s
Lonely Dissent http://lesswrong.com/lw/mb/lonely_dissent/ (December 2007)
“Respect movements, flee schools.”
Diary of an Unknown (1988)
An Old Man's Thoughts on Many Things, Of Education I
Teaching as a Subversive Activity (1969)
Context: Adminstrators are another curious consequence of a bureaucracy which has forgotten its reason for being. In schools, adminstrators commonly become myopic as a result of confronting all of the problems the "requirements" generate. Thus they cannot see (or hear) the constituents the system ostensibly exists to serve — the students. The idea that the school should consist of procedures specifically intended to help learners learn strikes many administrators as absurd — and "impractical." …Eichmann, after all, was "just an adminstrator." He was merely "enforcing requirements." The idea of "full time administrators" is palpably a bad one — especially in schools — and we say to hell with it. Most of the "administration" of the school should be a student responsibility. If schools functioned according to the democratic ideals they pay verbal allegience to, the students would long since have played a major role in developing policies and procedures guiding its operation. One of the insidious facts about totalitarianism is its seeming "efficiency." …Democracy — with all of its inefficiency — is still the best system we have so far for enhancing the prospects of our mutual survival. The schools should begin to act as if this were so.
"Why Nerds are Unpopular," February 2003
“You can't get any movement larger than five people without including at least one fucking idiot.”
Coyote
Green Mars (1993)
Preface
The Foundations of Mathematics (1925)