"What if education wasn't first and foremost about what we know, but about what we love?"

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Source : James K. A. Smith (2009). “Desiring the Kingdom (Cultural Liturgies): Worship, Worldview, and Cultural Formation”, p.18, Baker Academic

James K. A. Smith

#What If Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“Writing is the litmus paper of thoughtthe very center of schooling.”
“Westerners think that all that is negative and positive is only caused from outside of themselves. They materialize and externalize their experiences, never understanding the connection between outer and inner phenomena or interdependent phenomena, looking for explanations only from objects through nihilist habit instead of from the subjective experience of their own minds.”
“The Paramount executives were so pleased with Sunset Boulevard that they asked me to do a publicity tour.”
“The things are mighty few on earth that wishes can attain. Whate'er we want of any worth, we've got to work to gain.”
“I think it's unnecessary to be mean for the sake of being mean, but I do believe you have to be truthful, but with love.”
“If you want to be a theater actor, where do you live now? Young actors struggle on a Broadway salary. A lot of them live in shoe boxes; some of them are literally three to a shoebox. New York has gotten prohibitively expensive.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Victorian architecture in the United States was copied straight from England.”
“All I ask is a tall ship and a star to sail her by.”

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