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The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled. And the worst thing you can do to a talented person is to prevent them from starting fires.

— Plutarch, Life of Alexander (100)
1w ago

The mind of man is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.

2w ago

The task of the excellent teacher is to stimulate 'apparent' ordinary people to unusual effort. The tough problem is not in identifying winners: it is in making winners out of ordinary people.

2w ago
honest-broker.com
How to Be a Serious Reader

The really important thing is whether the literary elite are Philistines. And what we have now are English professors saying that, you know, Taylor Swift is as good as Mary Shelley. And the guy who runs the New York Times book review section hasn't read Middlemarch and doesn't think it's a problem.

2w ago

The mind is furnished with a set of instincts which seek out certain kinds of phenomena and are apathetic to others, until education and experience have taught it to attend to every thing that may be of consequence.

3w ago
longreads.com
It’s Hard Out Here for a 20-Something

A year into the pandemic, researchers found that the more time kids spent in online learning, the more depressed and anxious they got. During the second Covid wave, up to 70 per cent of teenagers in the province reported depression symptoms.

3w ago
fs.blog
Joe Liemandt: Alpha School and the Future of Education

He argues the traditional classroom was designed for a narrow slice of students and wastes everyone else's time. The fix isn't more money or better teachers; it's rebuilding from scratch around mastery, motivation, and AI.

4w ago

The task of the excellent teacher is to stimulate 'apparently ordinary' people to unusual effort over many years.

1mo ago

The task of the excellent teacher is to stimulate 'apparently ordinary' people to unusual effort. The tough problem is not in identifying winners: it is in making winners out of ordinary people.

1mo ago

The chief wonder of education is that it does not destroy the mind of the pupil at all. When one considers the usual methods of teaching, this is indeed extraordinary. Yet it does happen, and I should say that in nine cases out of ten it happens by accident.

1mo ago

The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.

1mo ago

The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.

1mo ago

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