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“Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
― The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx
― The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx
“To read without joy is stupid.”
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“The world's a headmaster who works on your faults. I don't mean in a mystical or Jesus way. More how you'll keep tripping over a hidden step, over and over, till you finally understand: Watch out for that step! Everything that's wrong with us, if we're too selfish or too Yessir, Nosir, Three bags full sir or too anything, that's a hidden step. Either you suffer the consequences of not noticing your fault forever or, one day, you do notice it, and fix it. Joke is, once you get it into your brain about that hidden step and think, Hey, life isn't such a shithouse after all again, then BUMP! Down you go, a whole new flight of hidden steps.
There are always more.”
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There are always more.”
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“But what is equally important, and sobering, is how often we fool ourselves. And we fool ourselves not only individually but en masse. The tendency of a group of human beings to quickly come to believe something that its individual members will later see as obviously false is truly amazing. Some of the worst tragedies of the last century happened because well-meaning people fell for easy solutions proposed by bad leaders.”
― The Trouble with Physics: The Rise of String Theory, the Fall of a Science and What Comes Next
― The Trouble with Physics: The Rise of String Theory, the Fall of a Science and What Comes Next
“Still though, I think if you're not self-obsessed, you're probably boring.”
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Olsonj669 wrote: "Hi Eric,I hope you are having great holidays. I'm sure that family play is occupying much time.
Sometime we may get a chance to talk about your book. It was a monumental achievement. So well writt..."
Hi Jim...thanks for reading and for your comment. I don't know that I argue for something 'narrow', but definitely for something narrower and more reliable than our enterprise (and its outside stakeholders) continues to think it can provide. As my book attempts to lay out, continuing to idealize such a 'width' of outcomes is one of our central problems, in lots of ways: (1) we can't provide it (and we've proven that, for decades now), (2) it's unsustainable as preferred outcomes are always changing, (3) students entering from mainstream-removed positions don't get proper tools to succeed in mainstream (which, let's face it, doesn't change ALL that much, even over lots of time), etc., etc. And, well, I'd say the results are pretty well speaking for themselves around education: rich richer, poor poorer, etc. :)
Would love to chat about it sometime. Be in touch--and thanks again for reading!
Hi Eric,I hope you are having great holidays. I'm sure that family play is occupying much time.
Sometime we may get a chance to talk about your book. It was a monumental achievement. So well written and researched. I will admit to having trouble of the central image of a funnel. I'm not sure that I want a narrow opening at the end of students schooling. My image would be more of a pachinko machine. Yours is much neater, but mine may be more fun. Take care. Jim