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“Indeed, the lesson of bells is that no work is worth finishing, so why care too deeply about anything? Years of bells will condition all but the strongest to a world that can no longer offer important work to do. Bells are the secret logic of school time; their logic is inexorable. … Bells inoculate each undertaking with indifference.”
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— Sep 24, 2026 07:43PM
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“The fifth lesson I teach is intellectual dependency. Good students wait for a teacher to tell them what to do. This is the most important lesson of them all: we must wait for other people, better trained than ourselves, to make the meanings of our lives.”
This book is just devastating.
I have to keep stopping and sending quotes to all my friends (sorry).
— Sep 24, 2026 08:04PM
This book is just devastating.
I have to keep stopping and sending quotes to all my friends (sorry).