"One morning in Boston, as I walked to work across the Public Garden, I found myself imagining a huge conference, in a hotel full of signs and posters and people wearing badges. But at this conference everyone seemed to be talking about breathing. "How are you breathing these days?" "Much better than I used to, but I still need to improve." "Have you seen Joe Smith yet--he certainly breathes beautifully." And so on. All the meetings, books, discussions, were about Better Breathing. And I thought, if we found ourselves at such a conference, would we not assume that everyone there was sick, or had just been sick? Why so much talk and worry about something that healthy people do naturally?
"The same might be said of our endless concern with 'learning.'
~John Holt from the book Teach Your Own
