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Much had changed since. No longer was China unified under a virtuous and powerful Zhou king. By 700 bce the country had splintered into small, independent, and often warring states,
“Indeed, as Arum and Roksa (2011) so eloquently reveal, as far as most students are concerned, the certifying power of the degree is the sole purpose of going to college, besides, of course, the social life. Once they have that degree, they believe they can become part of the workforce, prosper, and be happy. In this context, then, educating the whole student means little more than creating a student who can slide easily into the workforce, participating in the status quo.”
― Creating Wicked Students: Designing Courses for a Complex World
― Creating Wicked Students: Designing Courses for a Complex World
“If you believe that the primary reason that people fail to meet goals has to do more with them than you, then you should not be in the business of supervising, developing, or leading people.”
― Carrots and Sticks Don't Work: Build a Culture of Employee Engagement with the Principles of RESPECT
― Carrots and Sticks Don't Work: Build a Culture of Employee Engagement with the Principles of RESPECT
“Rilke used to say that no poet would mind going to gaol, since he would at least have time to explore the treasure house of his memory. In many respects Rilke was a prick.”
― Unreliable Memoirs
― Unreliable Memoirs
“My own simplistic definition would be: dualism results when we make necessary distinctions, and then take those distinctions too seriously. We turn those distinctions into dividing lines rather than connecting lines; we use them as no-trespassing signs. We not only distinguish, we separate. And the separation usually leads to ranking: one side is superior to and dominant over the other. Thus, we have the dualism of matter and spirit, East and West, nature and history, male and female, God and the world.”
― Without Buddha I Could Not be a Christian
― Without Buddha I Could Not be a Christian
“Shamelessness is not the same as honesty.”
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