"All too often, schools resemble museums, reflecting the past rather than shaping the future"

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Source : Max Tegmark (2014). “Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality”, p.509, Vintage

Max Tegmark

#School Quotes #Past Quotes #Museums Quotes

“Scratching people where they itch and addressing their 'felt needs' is a stratagem of the poor steward of the oracles of God. This was the recipe for success for the false prophets of the Old Testament.”
“Folks want to be listened to, they want to be heard.”
“I just want the same thing Joe Montana got when he was MVP. He got respect. He got commercials. He got everything”
“One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!”
“The idea that I'm a homosexual thrill killer, that I stroll down the streets and stalk young boys and slaughter them... Hell, if you could see my schedule, my work schedule, you knew damn well that I was never out there.”
“In order to be a realist, you must believe in miracles.”

Source : Television broadcast, CBS, 5 Oct. 1956
“Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.”

Source : W. Somerset Maugham (2013). “The Essential W. Somerset Maugham Collection”, p.1429, eBookIt.com
“Delicacy is to love what grace is to beauty.”

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