Decades into a digital revolution that will make lifelong work in any single sector rare, we need dynamism—not status quo–ism—in higher education. In our knowledge-intensive economy, we will need an ever-expanding, highly educated workforce. As important, we will need a broader base of wise, gritty learners. We cannot build what we need if we assume that the developmental experience of every 20-year-old will be the same.
~ Ben Sasse via The Atlantic
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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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I began plotting novels at about the time I learned to read. The story of my childhood is the usual bleak fantasy, and we can dismiss it with the restrained observation that I certainly would not consider living it again.
~ James Baldwin
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I never have taken a picture I’ve intended. They’re always better or worse.
~ Diane Arbus
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He had only one vanity; he thought he could give advice better than any other person.
~ Mark Twain
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Death, like generation, is a secret of Nature.
~ Marcus Aurelius
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American university presidents are a nervous breed; I have never thought well of them as a class.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
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Happiness is a matter of one’s most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.
~ Iris Murdoch
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Be extremely subtle even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponent’s fate.
~ Sun Tzu
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