I don't play nice. @lloba - Tumblr Blog

"We destroy the disinterested (I do not mean uninterested) love of learning in children, which is so strong when they are small, by encouraging and compelling them to work for petty and contemptible rewards—gold stars, or papers marked 100 and tacked to the wall, or A's on report cards, or honor rolls, or dean's lists, or Phi Beta Kappa keys—in short, for the ignoble satisfaction of feeling that they are better than someone else. We encourage them to feel that the end and aim of all they do in school is nothing more than to get a good mark on a test, or to impress someone with what they seem to know. We kill, not only their curiosity, but their feeling that it is a good and admirable thing to be curious, so that by the age of ten most of them will not ask questions, and will show a good deal of scorn for the few who do.

In many ways, we break down children's convictions that things make sense, or their hope that things may prove to make sense. We do it, first of all, by breaking up life into arbitrary and disconnected hunks of subject matter, which we then try to "integrate" by such artificial and irrelevant devices as having children sing Swiss folk songs while they are studying the geography of Switzerland, or do arithmetic problems about rail-splitting while they are studying the boyhood of Lincoln. Furthermore, we continually confront them with what is senseless, ambiguous, and contradictory; worse, we do it without knowing that we are doing it, so that, hearing nonsense shoved at them as if it were sense, they come to feel that the source of their confusion lies not in the material but in their own stupidity."

—John Holt, How Children Fail

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Cepheus constellation. Image by @xipteras

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Svalbard, Norway // Peter Holliday

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chasing the fog somewhere in Switzerland

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We need like a month where nothing happens and there's no repercussions we all just stay in bed and hibernate and nothing goes wrong

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🥦 Grocery clerks 🥦

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🐾🥨 Bakery 🥖🐾

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Felix Wesch

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real life magic // February 2017

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being in ur 20s is like what 2 songs am i listening to on repeat tonight

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everyone shut up and look at this

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Hate it when recipe titles make claims about how long it takes to make the dish. You don't know what I'm capable of. I can make any one of Rachel Ray's 30 minute meals in 2 hours flat.