Quotes of Hopper - somelinesforyou

“ The school system, custodian of print culture, has no place for the rugged individual. It is, indeed, the homogenizing hopper into which we toss our integral tots for processing. ”

- Marshall McLuhan

“ I was extreme… from skateboarder to hip-hopper to rave child to lead singer of a rock band - I did it all, and all at the same time. ”

- Pink

“ And what is a good citizen? Simply one who never says, does or thinks anything that is unusual. Schools are maintained in order to bring this uniformity up to the highest possible point. A school is a hopper into which children are heaved while they are still young and tender; therein they are pressed into certain standard shapes and covered from head to heels with official rubber-stamps. ”

- H. L. Mencken

“ The Boy Hunting Locusts A boy was hunting for locusts. He had caught a goodly number, when he saw a Scorpion, and mistaking him for a locust, reached out his hand to take him. The Scorpion, showing his sting, said: If you had but touched me, my friend, you would have lost me, and all your locusts too! ”

- Aesop
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