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TEACHER: All right, children, welcome to fourth grade math. Everybody take a calculator out of the bin. ME: What are these? TEACHER: From now on we’ll be using calculators. ME: What do these things do? TEACHER: Simple operations, like
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“Collateral learning in the way of formation of enduring attitudes, of likes and dislikes, may be and often is much more important than the spelling lesson or lesson in geography or history that is learned. For these attitudes are fundamentally what count in the future. The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning. If impetus in this direction is weakened instead of being intensified, something much more than mere lack of preparation takes place. The pupil is actually robbed of native capacities which otherwise would enable him [sic] to cope with the circumstances that he meets in the course of his life. We often see persons who have had little schooling and in whose case the absence of set schooling proves to be a positive asset. They have at least retained their native common sense and power of judgement, and its exercise in the actual conditions of living has given them the precious gift of ability to learn from the experiences they have.”
― Experience and Education
― Experience and Education
“I would hate to die for a lot of reasons. But mostly because of all the books I haven't yet read.”
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“If history proves two things, one is that the avant-garde almost always gets assimilated, and two, young people get older.”
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“It is possible to bathe in nonsense ... to be refreshed by it.”
― Wittgenstein Jr
― Wittgenstein Jr
“If you can't offend people in a free society, then the question you have to ask yourself is, "Just how free is it?”
― Andy Kaufman: The Truth, Finally
― Andy Kaufman: The Truth, Finally
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