There is a myth that the purpose of education is to give one the means for upward mobility and success. The plain truth is that the planet does not need more successful people. But it does need desperately more peacemakers, healers, restorers, story tellers, and lovers of every shape and form.


Earth in Mind: On Education, Environment, and the Human Prospect (ed. Island Press, 2004) - ISBN: 9781559634953

David W. Orr Quotes

There is a myth that the purpose of education is to give one the means for upward mobility and success. The plain truth is that the planet does not...

There is a myth that the purpose of education is to give one the means for upward mobility and success. The plain truth is that the planet does not...

There is a myth that the purpose of education is to give one the means for upward mobility and success. The plain truth is that the planet does not...

There is a myth that the purpose of education is to give one the means for upward mobility and success. The plain truth is that the planet does not...