"Our approach to education has remained largely unchanged since the Renaissance: From middle school through college, most teaching is done by an instructor lecturing to a room full of students, only some of them paying attention."

-- Daphne Koller

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“The traditional educational theory is to the effect that the way to bring up children is to keep them innocent (i.e., believing in biological, political, and socioeconomic fairy tales) as long as possible ... that students should be given the best possible maps of the territories of experience in order that they may be prepared for life, is not as popular as might be assumed.”
“Like buried treasures, the outposts of the universe have beckoned to the adventurous from immemorial times. Princes and potentates, political or industrial, equally with men of science, have felt the lure of the uncharted seas of space, and through their provision of instrumental means the sphere of exploration has made new discoveries and brought back permanent additions to our knowledge of the heavens.”
“The long silences need to be loved, perhaps more than the words which arrive to describe them in time.”

Source : Franz Wright (2009). “God's Silence”, p.8, Knopf
“This is aâ€”a proposal of marriage?â€ he asked me, and there was the very smallest trace of a smile at the corner of his mouth, something I had never seen before. â€œI suppose so,â€ I said, blushing again. â€œAnd, as you see, Iâ€™m doing it properly, on my knees.â€ â€œThis would, however, be a partnership of equals youâ€™re offering, I imagine?â€ â€œUndoubtedly.â€ (448-49)”
“You will never be able to find happiness if you stay attached to the wrong person and don't move on.”
“I'm just a small-town New Zealand girl. But, I do think it was incredibly necessary for me. Wild Things wouldn't exist if I hadn't have made some dramatic changes and that all happened in LA.”

Source : Brightest Young Things Interview, brightestyoungthings.com. June 23, 2016.
“Once you become an owner of a team, you get so much more into the sport and you can't help it. So I really love NFL football now to the degree of following it much more than I did previously.”
“Jesus literally sliced through years of rabbinical law and cultural norms with the extreme love of God that sees the treasure in every human heart.”

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