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Monthly Archives: February 2024
Campus Life at the
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If you’ve taken a college tour lately, either as an applicant or as the parent of an applicant, you may have noticed that at some point—usually as you’re on the death march from the aquatic center to the natural-sciences complex—the tour guide will spin smartly on her heel, do the college-tour-guide thing of performatively walking backwards, and let you in on something very important. “What’s different about College X,” she’ll say confidently, “is that our professors don’t teach you what to think. They teach you how to think.”
~ Caitlin Flanagan via The Atlantic
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Generative AI Statement of the Day
via University of North Texas
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We have had no good comic operas of late, because the real world has been more comic than any possible opera.
~ G. K. Chesterton
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Campus Life at
Cal State San Bernardino
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Throughout most of history, religious institutions were able to impose pro-fertility norms. But the causal relationship is reciprocal and the dominant direction can be reversed: if pro-fertility norms come to be seen as outmoded and repressive, their rejection also brings rejection of religion.
~ Ronald Inglehart
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They who clamor loudest for freedom are often the ones least likely to be happy in a free society.
~ Eric Hoffer
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The best environment for diplomacy is found where mutual confidence between governments exists.
~ Dean Acheson
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Generative AI Statement of the Day
Ulster University
The Generative AI Statement recently published by Ulster University can be found here:
Ulster’s position on the use of AI tools
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A little group of wise hearts is better than a wilderness full of fools.
~ John Ruskin
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