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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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Television is the way it is simply because people tend to be extremely similar in their vulgar and prurient and dumb interests and wildly different in their refined and aesthetic and noble interests.
~ David Foster Wallace
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