“Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin,
is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery.”
— Horace Mann
Half Awake
- William JamesHarvard professor, Father of American Psychology, New Age Thought pioneer
“Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. Our fires are damped, our drafts are checked. We are making use of only a small pert of our possible mental and physical resources. … The human individual thus lives usualy far within his limits; he posseses powers of various sorts which he habitually fails to use. He energizes below his maximum, and behaves below his optimum. … Either some unusual stimulus fills them with emotional excitement, or some unusual idea of necessity induces them to make an extra effort of will. Excitements, ideas, and efforts in a word, are what carry us over the dam.”
— William James
The Idiot’s Story