The bottom line is that if you give somebody a standardized test when they are 13 or 18, you will learn something important about them, but not necessarily whether they will flourish in life, nor necessarily whether they will contribute usefully to society’s greater good. Intelligence is not the same as effectiveness.
~ David Brooks
via How the Ivy League Broke America
published by The Atlantic
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Jasper Johns – the American painter whose work is associated with abstract expressionism, Neo-Dada, and pop art – was born on this day – May 15, 1930 – in Augusta, Georgia.
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Eurythmics, Annie Lennox, Dave Stewart – Would I Lie to You? (Official Video)
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Our species is the only creative species, and it has only one creative instrument, the individual mind and spirit of a man. Nothing was ever created by two men. There are no good collaborations, whether in art, in music, in poetry, in mathematics, or philosophy.
~ John Steinbeck
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Lack of originality, everywhere, all over the world, from time immemorial, has always been considered the foremost quality and the recommendation of the active, efficient and practical man.
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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