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“What does he want you to do? What does she? And how can this be accomplished with the least effort possible so that time will be left for the real, important things? Here we are, figuring out how to survive in a hive of hierarchies, and they want us to memorize dates and decline agricola.”
― Missing History: The Covert Education of a Child of the Great Books
― Missing History: The Covert Education of a Child of the Great Books
“Love and learning are similar in that they can never be wasted.”
― Lab Girl
― Lab Girl
“Because school has always been a matter of getting it right, of scoping out what “rightness” means to the teacher and then providing this.”
― Missing History: The Covert Education of a Child of the Great Books
― Missing History: The Covert Education of a Child of the Great Books
“this fundamental effort to get your bearings, this paradox pressed upon teenagers of distinguishing yourself from everyone in the world while taking care not to be different from anyone—”
― Missing History: The Covert Education of a Child of the Great Books
― Missing History: The Covert Education of a Child of the Great Books
“What is the problem? What is the situation that requires this change to solve it? Who says so, and on what evidence? What would occur if no one acted to solve this problem? And what would happen to us if that occurred?”
― Managing Transitions: Making the Most of Change
― Managing Transitions: Making the Most of Change
U-City Readers
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— last activity Aug 19, 2008 01:36PM
This is a group for students and staff of University City School District in University City, MO.
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