If anybody asks me what I have accomplished, I will say all I have accomplished is that I have written a few good sentences.
~ Eric Hoffer
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Monthly Archives: May 2024
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You may remember the syllabus. Handed out on the first day of class, it was a revered and simple artifact that would outline the plan of a college course. It was a pragmatic document, covering contact information, required books, meeting times, and a schedule. But it was also a symbolic one, representing the educational part of the college experience in a few dense and hopeful pages.
~ Ian Bogost via The Atlantic
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Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of our science.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If inheritance qualifies one for office, intelligence cannot be a requirement.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
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Serious reflexion about one’s own character will often induce a curious sense of emptiness; and if one knows another person well, one may sometimes intuit a similar void in him.
~ Iris Murdoch
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In a world that otherwise values competition, effort, and merit, the British have allowed their state to be governed by the purest chance. It seems like a formula for disaster. Instead, it has produced 350 years of constitutional stability.
~ David Frum via The Atlantic
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There are no holidays for art; and that’s just fine with the artist.
~ Elfriede Jelinek
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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
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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
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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
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