Education

Good teaching is one-fourth

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Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre. Gail Godwin

My father is a

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My father is a college professor and that’s about the extent of my college experience. I’m sort of a professional student forever. I think just as human beings we always have a student who is alive in us and is waiting to pop up and make us feel like we are 16 years-old again. Gabriel … Read more

There is no more

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There is no more wild, free, vigorous growth of the forest, but everything is in pots or rows like a rococo garden… The pupil is in the age of spontaneous variation which at no period of life is so great. He does not want a standardized, overpeptonized mental diet. It palls on his appetite. G. … Read more

Education… has produced a

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Education… has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. G. M. Trevelyan

A mathematician, like a

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A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas. G. H. Hardy

Real education must ultimately

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Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding. Ezra Pound