Between the idea and the reality, between the motion and the act, falls the Shadow.
~ T.S. Eliot
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Between the idea and the reality, between the motion and the act, falls the Shadow.
~ T.S. Eliot
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People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become, and they pay for it, very simply, by the lives they lead.
~ James Baldwin
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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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Proper words in proper places, make the true definition of a style.
~ Jonathan Swift
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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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