- San Francisco State University
- University of Akron
- Oklahoma State University
- Brown University
- Michigan State University
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“The propensity of American university professors to eat their lunch in front of a computer screen is among the strangest things a European academic will encounter upon taking a posting in the United States.”
~ Louis A. Feuerbach
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We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand. A doctrine that is understood is shorn of its strength.
~ Eric Hoffer
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Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for miseries and yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries.
~ Blaise Pascal
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Students are trained to be good hurdle-clearers. We shower them with approval or disapproval depending on how they measure up on any given day. Childhood and adolescence are thus lived within an elaborate system of conditional love. Students learn to ride an emotional roller coaster—congratulating themselves for clearing a hurdle one day and demoralized by their failure the next. This leads to an existential fragility: If you don’t keep succeeding by somebody else’s metrics, your self-worth crumbles.
~ David Brooks
via How the Ivy League Broke America
published by The Atlantic
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