Sekar Writes

“If access to good jobs, housing, health care, and other essentials was fairer, we wouldn't heap such outsized economic expectations on our schools. If we aren't asking them to fix our deepest social and economic inequalities, for example, we can ask them to focus on preparing kids for citizenship in a diverse democracy. Today, we measure the success of our schools mostly according to how well they advance the interests of individual consumers.”
― Jennifer Berkshire, The Education Wars: A Citizen’s Guide and Defense Manual

“What if you were a teacher but had no voice to speak your knowledge? What if you had no language at all and yet there was something you needed to say? Wouldn't you dance it? Wouldn't you act it out? Wouldn't your every movement tell the story? In time you would be so eloquent that just to gaze upon you would reveal it all. And so it is with these silent green lives.”
― Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants

“my world is collapsing, my world is rebuilding itself; wait and see how you (meaning me) survive it all. I'm not lamenting the falling apart, it was already in a state of collapse, what I'm lamenting is the rebuilding, I lament my waning strength, I lament being born, I lament the light of the sun.”
― Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena

“Personal responsibilities cannot compensate for societal irresponsibility”
― Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us