In my Commonplace...

"Small groups of humans turning off their phones and paying attention for half an hour in their local park is obviously not, in itself, the revolution that will bring the attention frackers to their knees. But it offers a model we can build on, of people coming together to decide (and dispute!) how the world is, and how we think it ought to be. That is the practice of freedom — the essence of democracy — and the high purpose of education itself."
 ~  D. Graham Burnett, Alyssa Loh and Peter Schmidt
(Mr. Burnett, Ms. Loh and Mr. Schmidt are members of the 
Friends of Attention collective.)