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“Hölderlin’s lines: Wo aber Gefahr ist, wächst / Das Rettende auch (‘Where there is danger, that which will save us also grows’).”
― Iain McGilchrist, The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World

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“Truth will sooner come out from error than from confusion.”
― Francis Bacon, Novum Organum

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“The misery of being exploited by capitalists is nothing compared to the misery of not being exploited all.”
― Joan Robinson, Economic Philosophy

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“No Child Left Behind has diminished [teachers'] sense of control of their own classroom, narrowed the focus of their jobs, and stifled pedagogical innovation.”
― James M. Lang, Cheating Lessons: Learning from Academic Dishonesty

tags: cheating, education, high-stakes, no-child-left-behind

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“In other words, taking a few seconds to predict the answer before learning it, even when the prediction is incorrect, seemed to increase subsequent retention of learned material. This was true even when that prediction time substitutes for—rather than supplements—more conventional forms of studying.”
― James M. Lang, Small Teaching: Everyday Lessons from the Science of Learning

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