"He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying."
-- Friedrich Nietzsche


"Everyone in our culture wants to win a prize. Perhaps that is the grand lesson we have taken with us from kindergarten in the age of perversions of Dewey-style education: everyone gets a ribbon, and praise becomes a meaningless narcotic to soothe egoistic distemper."     - Gerald Early