If, as the popular saying goes, the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result, the people who run our public schools fit that description.
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I am told that the clinical definition of insanity is the tendency to do the same thing over and over again and expect different results.
Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
I would say any behavior that is not the status quo is interpreted as insanity, when, in fact, it might actually be enlightenment. Insanity is sorta in the eye of the beholder.
Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results when, in fact, the results never change, is one definition of insanity. That goes for economics, too.
In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it.
There's a big difference between sanity and insanity.
Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children.
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.
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