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“A good educational system should empower all who want to share what they know to find those who want to learn it from them.”

Ivan Illich
„Die einzige Rettung für Frauen aus der Unterschicht oder einer anderen Kultur oder beidem ist Bildung.”

Reyhan Şahin
“Education is not a product: mark, diploma, job, money in that order; it is a process, a never ending one”

Bel Kaufman
“If you get, give. If you learn, teach.”

Maya Angelou
“You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could do for themselves.”

Abraham Lincoln
“If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people”

Chinese Proverb
“If you are planning for generations help or make people educate themselves”

Openki
“The great aim of education is not knowledge, but action”

Herbert Spencer
“Education is not received. It is achieved.”

Albert Einstein
“Tell me and I’ll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I’ll understand.”

Chinese Proverb
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”

Margaret Mead
“Learning how to learn is life’s most important skill.”

Tony Buzan

15 05 2018

Openki festival impression

Over the course of five days we celebrated self-organized education: With more than 30 courses from the local population, discussions on the topic of self-organized learning and concerts.

Openki festival 2018 Education as an everyday activity

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