"All genuine learning is active, not passive."

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Source : Mortimer J. Adler (1998). “Paideia Proposal”, p.48, Simon and Schuster

Mortimer Adler

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“When I first toured with Wings things that were said about me were true - I did sing out of tune.”
“Life is now... this day, this hour...and is probably the only experience of the kind one is to have.”

Source : Charles Macomb Flandrau (1927). “Viva Mexico!”
“I've still got a brilliant head of hair, which refuses to lay down.”
“The hearings are just like a snake about to devour people.”

Source : 1973 On Watergate. Letter to a friend, quoted in Julie Nixon Eisenhower Pat Nixon (1986).
“I can go back to my very first movie, Thirteen, and think about that exact moment when I saw Nikki Reed and Evan Rachel Wood do their chemistry read audition together. It just came alive. I was filming it with a video camera and I was like, "I know I can make a good movie now."”

Source : Source: collider.com
“The great extension of our experience in recent years has brought light to the insufficiency of our simple mechanical conceptions and, as a consequence, has shaken the foundation on which the customary interpretation of observation was based.”
“Sometimes bad things have to happen before good things can.”

Source : Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.466, Simon and Schuster
“I write about the power of trying, because I want to be okay with failing. I write about generosity because I battle selfishness. I write about joy because I know sorrow. I write about faith because I almost lost mine, and I know what it is to be broken and in need of redemption. I write about gratitude because I am thankful - for all of it.”

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