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Monthly Archives: January 2024
Campus Life at
Alexander Pushkin died
on this day in 1837
Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin – the Russian poet, playwright, and novelist of the Romantic era – died at the age of 37, on this day – January 29th in in 1837 in Saint Petersburg.
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Campus Life at
the University of Iowa
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We do not need empirical evidence to convince us of the truth of something we already feel very deeply.
~ Dmitri J. O’Bannon
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Most colleges today underinvest in student advising and mentoring, and in intensive internships and career development. Our standard testing practices encourage mindless cramming and dumping, rather than critical engagement. All students would benefit from more frequent, low-stakes, real-time, individualized assessments.
~ Ben Sasse via The Atlantic
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As with taxation and relations between the sexes, higher education is essentially and continuously contested territory. Given the history of that crisis rhetoric, one’s natural response to the current cries of desperation might reasonably be one of boredom.
~ John Searle
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I can prove at any time that my education tried to make another person out of me than the one I became.
~ Franz Kafka
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Anyone who falls in love is searching for missing pieces of themselves.
~ Haruki Murakami
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We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
~ Marcel Proust
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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
~ Toni Morrison
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