"Around here, there ain’t a lot of jobs. Everything that gets built around here is strip malls … $7 an hour jobs. How can you live on $7 an hour?"

Kenny Buchanan, quoted in A High School Dropout’s Midlife Hardships : NPR

"[T]he great and the would-be-great ‘research universities’ … These gigantic institutions, increasingly formed upon the ‘industrial model,’ no longer make even the pretense of preparing their students for responsible membership in a family, a community, or a polity. … The American civilization so ardently promoted by these institutions is to be a civilization entirely determined by technology, and not encumbered by any thought of what is good or worthy or neighborly or humane."

Wendell Berry, on pulling his personal papers from The University of Kentucky (via ayse, via austinkleon)