"Well, part of it is a longstanding belief - it's been in our education establishment at least since the 1930s - that somehow children should be allowed to discover knowledge for themselves, that they should construct their own knowledge. This has surfaced most recently in connection with mathematics instruction, where the idea is that they need to discover how to add for themselves. Rather than being taught how to add, they should construct this knowledge on their own."

-- Lynne Cheney

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“I know nothing which can so comfort the soul; so calm the swelling billows of sorrow and grief; so speak peace to the winds of trial, as a devout musing upon the subject of the Godhead.”
“My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry.”
“A woman findeth in her last lover much of her first love; but a man seeth his next-to-the-last love, alway.”
“Intellect needs to be understood not as some kind of claim against the other human excellences for which a fatally high price has to be paid, but rather as a complement to them without which they cannot be fully consummated.”

Source : Richard Hofstadter (2012). “Anti-Intellectualism in American Life”, p.46, Vintage
“If you come every day or every month to my studio, you won't see that much change, but if you come once a year, you'll see big new categories opened up.”

Source : "Artists in Their Studios: Caio Fonseca". Interview with Michael Hainey, www.gq.com. May 2, 2012.
“I wish I had more hair on my head. Maybe if I sprinkled fertilizer on it, it would grow”
“A consultation process is what some authority sets in motion preparatory to doing what it intended all along.”
“Muslims should live like brothers.”

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