William Kamkwamba - Building a Windmill

Food for thought:

What is possible when children are encouraged or left to think for themselves:


When he was just 14 years old, Malawian inventor William Kamkwamba built his family an electricity-generating windmill from spare parts, working from rough plans he found in a library book.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8yKFVPOD6o




What might be impossible if children are handed over to institutions that will indoctrinate them what and how to think:


The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; It is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry to put down dissent and originality.

- Winston Churchill

The important thing is not to stop questioning."
-Einstein

Just look at us. Everything is backwards. Everything is upside-down.
Doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, universities destroy
knowledge, governments destroy freedom, the major media destroys
information, and religion destroys spirituality.
- Michael Ellner

Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
-Francis Bacon


What usually happens with education process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stifled and even paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature, they have lost their innate capabilities.

- Robert Frost


The public school system usually - a twelve year sentence of mind control, crushing creativity, smashing individualism, encouraging collectivism and compromise, destroying the exercise of intellectual inquiry, twisting it instead into meek subservience to authority.

- Thomas Jefferson

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
Oscar Wilde, De Profundis, 1905

Put a stick in the path as a lead sheep goes by and the beast will jump over it. Remove the stick and each following sheep in line will jump at precisely the same spot, even though there is no longer anything to jump over!
- Thomas Carlyle

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Education

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• africa
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[youmanskids]

good job William, I am proud of you for using the creativity that God gave you to change your world. Keep going, but keep your focus on people and relationships, not just on 'things'. God bless you.