Benjamin Barber Quotes

I don't divide the world into the weak and the strong, or the successes and failures...I divide the world into the learners and non-learners.

Jefferson thought schools would produce free men: we prove him right by putting dropouts in jail.

The question to ask is not whether you are a success or a failure, but whether you are a learner or a nonlearner.

Having created the conditions that make markets possible, democracy must do all the things that markets undo or cannot do.

Where once the student was taught that the unexamined life was not worth living, he is now taught that the profitably lived life is not worth examining.

Injuries too well remembered cannot heal.

I divide the world into learners and non-learners.

Global inequality means that while the wealthy have too few needs, the needy have too little wealth. Capitalism is stymied, courting long-term disaster.

I don't divide the world into the weak and the strong, or the successes and the failures. I divide the world into the learners and nonlearners.