Literature is as old as speech. It grew out of human need for it, and it has not changed except to become more needed.
~ John Steinbeck
Daily Archives: May 9, 2024
Quote, Unquote
It is clear by now that the mental-health crisis has changed academia forever: its structures, its culture and the function it is expected to perform in American society. More than half of American college students now report depression, anxiety or seriously considering suicide. This is a problem that reaches across geography, race, class, identity, institutional resources or prestige and academic ability. Almost one in four Americans in college considered dropping out in the last year because of their mental health. Adjusting pedagogy to account for this scale of illness and, in some cases, disability, is the new frontier of postsecondary education.
~ Jordan Kisner via The New York Times Magazine
:::
Campus Life at the
University of Brighton
Quote, Unquote
The sea did what it liked, and what it liked was destruction. It thundered at the town, and thundered at the cliffs, and brought the coast down, madly.
~ Charles Dickens
:::