"The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself."

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Source : "In Praise of Dissent". New York Times, December 16, 1956.

Archibald MacLeish

#Thinking Quotes #Environment Quotes #Moments Quotes

“I am still full of ambition.”
“I believe that a core problem with undergraduate education, especially at research universities like Harvard, Stanford, NYU, etc, is that most teaching is done by PhDs, who by temperament, training, interests, and rewards are researchers first. So they spend most of their time and energy probing a snip of a field's cutting edge. In my view, the attributes needed to be a transformative undergraduate instructor are pretty orthogonal to that. It would seem that undergraduate education would be superior if there was a separate track for teaching faculty.”
“To be quite frank and honest with you, it drives me absolutely crazy when my kids fight, the sound of them fighting and not getting along.”
“if you can't keep him interested, that's your fault.”
“In every man there is something wherein I may learn of him, and in that I am his pupil.”
“Each person searches for the most beautiful jump which will be the final before leaving this world.”
“A teacher who is only interested in great talents is like a man who only seeks the company of rich people.”
“I believe that religion should be totally separated from the state. That's not the way it is today, not even in Sweden.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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