"Are our ways of teaching students to ask some questions always correlative with our ways of teaching them not to ask - indeed, to be unconscious of - others? Does the educational system exist in order to promulgate knowledge, or is its main function rather to universalize a societyâ€™s tacit agreement about what it has decided it does not and cannot know?"

-- Barbara Johnson

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“So it is with life. Those thorns, the prickly problems of life, cause us to strive to rise above them and then, as we do, we learn. We learn to exercise true compassion, true kindness - or the thorns, if we let them, cause us to brood, to mourn over our trials. Then we plant the seeds of bitterness, hate, and ruin - weeds. We may reach up for the rose or down to the weeds...the weeds in life that tangle us, strangle us, and cause us to lose hope.”
“In hawthorn-time the heart grows light.”
“I have a specialized racing bike, which is great because it has a solid build, is comfortable to ride, and is lightweight.”
“The great European dream was to diminish militant nationalism. We would all be happy Europeans together. But we are going to see the old monster of militant nationalism being awoken when people realise how little control their politicians have.”
“Sometimes the director will want you to write about the character, sometimes he'll want you to live in the location that the character is from or something like that, but I don't usually make a lot of notes or anything like that.”
“I've needed someone like you for a long time. Now that I have you, no one is going to take you from me. Logan to Madeline”
“I was being musically mentored by a lot of people who were obviously more talented and skilled than I was, and I thought that I would just kind of learn the ropes of songwriting there - like how to do acoustic, country-esque songs, which I like because there's so much story in them.”
“The higher the IQ the lower the EQ. The more intelligent you are, the lower your ability is to communicate emotionally with people.”

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