Tim Anderson

“In the most devilishly wicked learning environments, experience will reinforce the exact wrong lessons.”
― David Epstein, Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

“Show spaces were supposed to be open to everyone regardless of age, race, class, sex, or sexual preference, but for the most part it was just white kids oblivious to the privilege they came from. It also became clear to me that while these were the politics heralded by the scene, often they were not actually practiced.”
― Laura Jane Grace, Tranny: Confessions of Punk Rock's Most Infamous Anarchist Sellout

“(It bears mentioning that cheerleading actually began as an exclusively male pursuit. Schools would select the most popular male students to rally up crowds with megaphones during games. It was only during World War II, when so many college men were drafted, that women began to replace them—a controversial move that some protested, fretting that for a girl to use her voice in such a way was unfeminine. When the men came back, they no longer wanted to participate in an activity that had been taken over by women.)”
― Danielle Friedman, Let's Get Physical: How Women Discovered Exercise and Reshaped the World

“As psychologist Ellen Winner, one of the foremost authorities on gifted children, noted, no savant has ever been known to become a “Big-C creator,” who changed their field.”
― David Epstein, Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World