"The difficulty with coming up with a curriculum is mainly that faculty aren't trained to think in terms of general education. They're trained to think in terms of their own discipline, or their specialty."

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Source : Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

Louis Menand

#Thinking Quotes #Discipline Quotes #Curriculum Quotes

“Earth, air, and ocean, glorious three.”

Source : Robert Montgomery (1832). “Messiah”
“My wife calls me grumpy cat. I'm normally a very pleasant person to be around.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“The Ministry of Truth, which concerned itself with news, entertainment, education and fine arts. The Ministry of Peace, which concerned itself with war. The Ministry of Love, which maintained law and order. And the Ministry of Plenty, which is responsible for economic affairs. their names, in Newspeak: Minitrue, Minipax, Miniluv and Miniplenty”
“Manliness has been defined as assertion of the self. Womanliness has been defined as the nurturing of selves other than our own - even if we quite lose our own in the process. (Women are supposed to find in this loss their true fulfillment.) But every individual person is born both to assert herself or himself and to act out a sympathy for others trying to find themselves - in Christian terms, meant to love one's self as one loves others ... Jesus never taught that we should split up that commandment - assigning 'love yourself' to men, 'love others' to women. But society has tried to.”

Source : Barbara Deming (1984). “We Are All Part of One Another: A Barbara Deming Reader”
“Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.”
“True patriotism springs from a belief in the dignity of the individual, freedom and equality not only for Americans but for all people on earth, universal brotherhood and good will, and a constant and earnest striving toward the principles and ideals on which this country was founded.”

Source : Eleanor Roosevelt (1962). “Book of common sense etiquette”
“The point is, this is what happens when advertising and data collection is the dominant business mode. We are encouraged to be compulsive. It's not that we're terrible addicts who need to go to an AA meeting and get off our gadgets.”
“People only accept change when they are faced with necessity, and only recognize necessity when a crisis is upon them.”

Source : Jean Monnet (1978). “Memoirs”

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