"Many people who talk about the discovery method of teaching are really talking about arranging a lesson or an experiment so that students discover what they are supposed to discover. That is not an exploration. The whole tradition of exploration is being lost for entire generations."

-- Frank Oppenheimer

#Teaching Quotes #Discovery Quotes #Talking Quotes

“No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.”
“Blanket compassion will shift the distribution decisively towards the manipulative end of the spectrum, and may paradoxically decrease the compassion with which the genuinely despairing are treated: for they are apt to get lost in the great mass of pseudo-distress and manipulation, and often their conduct draws less attention precisely because it is less attention-seeking.”
“Why are baseball managers the only coaches who dress up like the players?”
“In a company where tech decisions were still ultracentralized, the repercussions of a distracted CEO had to be damaging.”

Source : Paul Allen (2011). “Idea Man: A Memoir by the Cofounder of Microsoft”, p.131, Penguin
“If after I read a poem the world looks like that poem for 24 hours or so I'm sure it's a good oneâ€”and the same goes for paintings.”

Source : Elizabeth Bishop (2015). “One Art: Letters”, p.612, Macmillan
“About 1911 I had the idea of making for my son, who had just been born, a blanket composed of bits of fabric like those I had seen in the houses of Russian peasants. When it was finished, the arrangement of the pieces of material seemed to me to evoke cubist conceptions and we then tried to apply the same process to other objects and paintings.”
“I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking. Recording the man shaving at the window opposite and the woman in the kimono washing her hair. Some day, all this will have to be developed, carefully printed, fixed.”

Source : Goodbye to Berlin "Berlin Diary" (1939)
“Our God of Grace often gives us a second chance, but there is no second chance to harvest a ripe crop.”

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