Seth Godin Quotes About School

Quotes about: School

• The tragedy is that society (your school, your boss, your government, your family) keeps drumming the genius part out. The problem is that our culture has engaged in a Faustian bargain, in which we trade our genius and artistry for apparent stability.

  Seth Godin

  School, Government, Boss

  Seth Godin (2010). “Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?”, p.6, Penguin

• What is school for? If you're not asking that, you're wasting time and money.

  Seth Godin

  School, Asking, Wasting Time

• School is at its best when it gives students the expectation that they will not only
  dream big, but dream dreams that they can work on every day until they accomplish
  them-not because they were chosen by a black-box process, but because
  they worked hard enough to reach them.

  Seth Godin

  Dream, School, Giving

• If you do a job where someone tells you exactly what to do, they will find someone cheaper than you to do it. And yet our schools are churning out kids who are stuck looking for jobs where the boss tells them exactly what to do.

  Seth Godin

  Jobs, School, Kids

  "Back to (the wrong) school". sethgodin.typepad.com. September 05, 2011.

• You know, if I look at an auditorium full of high school students and the big man on campus and his girlfriend are busy talking while the lecture's going on, the rest of the room is going to do it because they're powerful sneezers. They have influence. They reach out to a whole bunch of people in a way that makes the idea of being disrespectful spread.

  Seth Godin

  Girlfriend, Powerful, School

  "What Makes An Idea Go Viral?". "TED Radio Hour" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. March 4, 2016.

• Normal is fading away. Governments and industries and schools like normal, because it's easier, it scales and it's profitable. But people don't like it - we want to be who we are, not who some marketer tells us to be.

  Seth Godin

  School, Government, People

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