"Obviously input is helpful to faculty in trying to come up with a curriculum, but ultimately it's the faculty's job to know what students need to know. Make a decision about it and present it."

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Source : Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

Louis Menand

#Jobs Quotes #Decision Quotes #Trying Quotes

“The tradition of the new. Yesterday's avant-gard-experiment is today's chic and tomorrow's cliche.”
“The perfect PIN is not four digits and not associated with your life, like an old telephone number. It's something easy for you to remember and hard for other people to guess.”
“Fearless what that means to me, knowing your enough, when you know in your heart and your mind that you're enough you're fearless. It's not just a magazine, it's a lifestyle, right? So embrace that - I am fearless!”
“Love is just a peculiar, fleeting affair that isn't very important, but in marriage there is always hostility between two different tribes of human beings. There are two opposing forces, who fight each other until one of them wins, and you and I, my poor old Alain, have been knocked out too easily.”
“I'm amazed at how adventurous and how dangerous the music was, and still is. I haven't heard anything like it since. I'm quite surprised, because a lot of the music on there we never heard at the time.”
“Love is the tyrant of the heart; it darkens Reason, confounds discretion; deaf to Counsel It runs a headlong course to desperate madness.”

Source : John Ford (1831). “The Dramatic Works of John Ford: The lover's melancholy. The broken heart. Perkin Warbeck”, p.63
“I went to London because, for me, it was the home of literature. I went there because of Dickens and Shakespeare.”
“In theater, you're in charge of your performance, and at the end of the day you're the one who gets credit because you're in front of the audience doing it, and in film and TV it's the director who gets to decide when to cut to you on a line, which take he uses.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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