Now students all seem to be converging on the same self, the successful upper-middle-class professional, impersonating the adult they've already decided they want to become.
Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them
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Unknown
We use Halloween to scare the kids and bankers to scare the adults.
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Anthony T Hincks
Why did adults have to be so thick? They always say “tell the truth, ” and when you do, they don’t believe you. What’s the point?
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Rick Riordan
One may enter the literary parlor via just about any door, be it the prison door, the madhouse door, or the brothel door. There is but one door one may not enter it through, which is the child room door. The critics will never forgive...
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Michael Ende
..you seemed to be listening to me, not to find out useful information, but to try to catch me in a logical fallacy. This tells us all that you are used to being smarter than your teachers, and that you listen to them in order...
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Orson Scott Card
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We can start all the organic farms we want, but we can't stop congress from declaring pizza sauce a vegetable.
Practical utility, however, is not the ultimate purpose of a liberal arts education. Its ultimate purpose is to help you learn to reflect in the widest and deepest sense, beyond the requirements of work and career: for the sake of citizenship, for the sake of...
Depression means self-loathing, self-disgust, and the kind of emotional numbness that feels like psychic death.
The purpose of college, to put this all another way, is to turn adolescents into adults. You needn't go to school for that, but if you're going to be there anyway, then that's the most important thing to get accomplished. That is the true education:...
We inherited a strong and flourishing country, and instead of making the investments - that is, the sacrifices - to maintain it, we chose to suck it dry and stick our children with the bill. If you want to see who is to blame for...
