Being surrounded by educated people makes democracy stronger, and it benefits our entire economy. - Seth Godin

begin to realize that the safest thing you can do feels risky and the riskiest thing you can do is play it safe.

I don’t know what’s the matter with people: they don’t learn by understanding, they learn by some other way — by rote or something. Their knowledge is so fragile!” — Richard Feynman

Our society is struggling because during times of change, the very last people you need on your team are well-paid bureaucrats, note takers, literalists, manual readers, TGIF laborers, map followers, and fearful employees.