Our ideal is to succeed in producing an art as pure as that of lunatics, but which is not that.
~ Salvador Dali
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Monthly Archives: February 2024
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The awful daring of a moment’s surrender, which an age of prudence can never retract. By this, and this only, we have existed.
~ T.S. Eliot
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Much of the monotony in higher education is a result of the accreditation process. Accreditation should protect students from snake-oil salesmen, but unfortunately it has become its own racket. Existing schools try to lock out potential competitors. Timidity, ideological homogeneity, and red tape are all structurally encouraged by the accreditation processes.
~ Ben Sasse via The Atlantic
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Since we do not have a national consensus on what success in higher education would consist of, no matter what happens, some sizable part of the population is going to regard the situation as a disaster.
~ John Searle
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Naga Munchetty was born
on this day in 1975
Subha Nagalakshmi Munchetty-Chendriah — the British television presenter who is a regular presenter on BBC Breakfast — was born on this day February 25, 1975 — in London, England.
She is a graduate of the University of Leeds.
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The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.
~ Franz Kafka
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Ever since time began, it’s been moving ever forward without a moment’s rest. And one of the privileges given to those who’ve avoided dying young is the blessed right to grow old.
~ Haruki Murakami
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There is no idea that does not carry in itself a possible refutation, no word that does not imply its opposite.
~ Marcel Proust
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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
~ Toni Morrison
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A new paper by Ashish Arora, Sharon Belenzon, Larisa C. Cioaca, Lia Sheer and Hansen Zhang, five economists, suggests that universities’ blistering growth and the rich world’s stagnant productivity could be two sides of the same coin.
~ via The Economist
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