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Edgar Allan Poe
“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
Edgar Allan Poe

Michael T. Osterholm
“In any pandemic, effective leadership is critical, and the first responsibility of the president or the head of any nation is to offer accurate and up-to-date information, provided by public health experts, not agenda-oriented political operatives.”
Michael T. Osterholm, Deadliest Enemy: Our War Against Killer Germs

James Hollis
“Education derives from the verb educe, which means “to draw forth from within.” The original teaching method of Socrates has been largely displaced by professorial deference to received scholarly authority. By and large, our students are taught how to take exams but not to think, write, or find their own path.”
James Hollis, Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life: How to Finally, Really Grow Up

Jodi Picoult
“History isn't about dates and places and wars. It's about the people who fill the spaces between them.”
Jodi Picoult, The Storyteller

Neil Postman
“The world of the known and the not yet known is bridged by wonderment. But wonderment happens largely in a situation where the child’s world is separate from the adult world, where children must seek entry, through their questions, into the adult world. As media merge the two worlds, as the tension created by secrets to be unraveled is diminished, the calculus of wonderment changes. Curiosity is replaced by cynicism or, even worse, arrogance. We are left with children who rely not on authoritative adults but on news from nowhere. We are left with children who are given answers to questions they never asked. We are left, in short, without children.”
Neil Postman, The Disappearance of Childhood

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