"American education has been littered with failed fads and foolish ideas for the past century."

-- Diane Ravitch

#Past Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Fads Quotes

“The only thing that matters is that we stand firm.”
“Yes, she thought, laying down her brush in extreme fatigues, I have had my vision.”
“I like going to the gym every day.”
“I planted some jokes in my wedding. Like, the organizers asked me to select music. So when I approached wife at the ceremony, they played the second movement from Shostakovich's 10th Symphony, which is usually known as the "portrait of Stalin." And then when we embraced, the music that they played was Schubert's "Death and the Maiden." I enjoyed this in a childish way! But marriage was all a nightmare and so on and so on.”
“Theorizing is of course essential to make progress in understanding, but theorizing in the absence of knowing available relevant facts is not very productive.”

Source : "Causal machines". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. April 10, 2012.
“Creativity is often blocked by trying to be perfect. Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.”
“It is a fact beyond question that there are two kinds of Christian experience, one of which is an experience of bondage, and the other an experience of liberty.”
“I think most people try to get others to see through their eyes.”

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