The story of American education is we teach what's easy to test, not what's important to learn.
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A trap a lot of these kinds of research labs or hard tech labs fall into is they start with the technology first, build that in a vacuum, and then they try to figure out what use cases to try to fit it into later. Whenever that happens, it always feels like the product isn't quite the right fit.
Stanley Tang
The mind of man is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.
Plutarch — Life of Alexander
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.
Alfred North Whitehead — The Aims of Education and Other Essays