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Second Language Teaching & Learning

by David Nunan (Goodreads Author)

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Jun 22, 2019 03:36AM

“Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

tags: knowledge, philosophy

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“I don't want to be a tree; I want to be its meaning.”
― Orhan Pamuk, My Name Is Red

tags: philosophy

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“The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.”
― Baruch Spinoza

tags: education, free-thought, philosophy

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“The menu is not the meal.”
― Alan Watts

tags: language, metaphysics, names, nominalism, philosophy, power-of-words, words

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“One of the greatest tragedies in life is to lose your own sense of self and accept the version of you that is expected by everyone else.”
― K.L. Toth

tags: confusion, identity, loss, mask, philosophy, sadness, self, sense-of-self, tragedy

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