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“Real education is about genuine understanding and the ability to figure things out on your own; not about making sure every 7th grader has memorized all the facts some bureaucrats have put in the 7th grade curriculum.”
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“In other words, instead of providing a place for a group of like-minded people to come together, magazines provide a sampling of what a group of like-minded people might say in such an instance so that you can pretend you’re part of them.”
― The Boy Who Could Change the World: The Writings of Aaron Swartz
― The Boy Who Could Change the World: The Writings of Aaron Swartz
“Think deeply about things. Don’t just go along because that’s the way things are or that’s what your friends say. Consider the effects, consider the alternatives, but most importantly, just think.”
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“Creativity comes from applying things you learn in other fields to the field you work in.”
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“Indeed, school was so important that the mill owners quickly decided to make it mandatory. “No language of ours can convey too strongly our sense of the dangers which wait us from [those who] are not and have never been members of our public schools,” warned the Lowell School Committee. Universal schooling is “our surest safety against internal commotions.”‡”
― The Boy Who Could Change the World: The Writings of Aaron Swartz
― The Boy Who Could Change the World: The Writings of Aaron Swartz
L’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at L’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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992 books
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3,934 books
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1 book
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160 friends
142 books
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424 friends
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292 friends
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156 friends
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