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I look at how he’s learned Minecraft and totally understand why school is becoming more of a struggle. First, he has a passion for learning the game. That’s crucial. He creates his own, constantly updated curriculum based on what he knows
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“...imitation supplements inadequate congenital variations in the direction of an instinct, and so, by keeping the creature alive, sets the trend of further variations in the same direction until the instinct is fully organized and congenital. If both of these views be true, as there seems reason to believe, then imitation holds a remarkable position in relation to intelligence and instinct. It stands midway between them and aids them both. In some functions it keeps the performance going, and so allows of its perfection as an instinct; in others it puts a stress on intelligence, and so allows the instinct to fall away, if it have no independent utility in addition to that served by the intelligence. In other words, it is through imitation that instincts both arise and decay; that is, some instincts are furthered, and some suppressed, by imitation.”
― The Play of Animals
― The Play of Animals
“But as we ascend to animals of high types, having faculties more efficient and more numerous, we begin to find that time and strength are not wholly absorbed in providing for immediate needs.”
― The Play of Animals
― The Play of Animals
“... pain … the chain forged to bind us to the eternal present, …”
― The Urth of the New Sun
― The Urth of the New Sun
“..., the kind of place where one finds objects that appear to have come from nowhere …”
― The Urth of the New Sun
― The Urth of the New Sun
“All these would be rationalizations—the thing itself was glorious.”
― The Urth of the New Sun
― The Urth of the New Sun
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