Words of wisdom

1. Self-organizing learning environments (SOLEs)
1. Self-directed learning
2. Hands-on engagement with wide variety of materials (including plants and animals)
3. Largely unstructured school day
2. "杀死一个人是悲剧，杀死一万个人是统计数字." -- 斯大林
3. "Judge a man by his questions, not by his answers." -- Voltaire
4. "Work saves a man from three great evils: boredom, vice and need." -- Voltaire
5. "Seek to be an indispensable complement to something that's getting cheap and plentiful". -- Hal Varian
6. "Airplanes don't flap their wings." -- Frederick Jelinek
7.  "低端文人研究道德，高端文人研究美感。" -- 万维钢 
8. "It is comparatively easy to make computers exhibit ault-level performance on intelligence tests or playing checkers, and difficult or impossible to give them the skills of a one-year-old when it comes to perception and mobility." -- Hans Moravec 
9. “每一个数学公式都能让这本书的销量减少一半” -- Stephen Hawkings
10. "朕非亡国之君，臣皆亡国之臣" -- 崇祯
11. Achievements doesn't necessarily lead to happiness, but the happiness can cultivate achievement. --- except from The happiest Kids in the Worlds, How Dutch Parents Help Their Kids by Doing Less
12. 要判断一个人的一生成就，只要认真观察他自身是否拥有较高的学习意愿、较强的反省能力、较大的包容态度、较深厚的专业知识，以及持久的阅读习惯。 -- 高希均