November 2011
5 posts
The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and...
– Michelangelo Buonarotti
Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone’s total control, and...
– J.K.Rowling
The University is like our congress-dysfunctional and designed for the ones who...
(In the U.S., half all income sent to Washington is redistributed to the...
– Margaret Wente
I still don’t see how Europe and even the US and the rest of the OECD are going...
– Geoffrey Henry
October 2011
3 posts
We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a...
– Buckminster Fuller
”Ms. ___, you are just so cozy for me that I can’t *stand*...
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the...
– Henry David Thoreau
September 2011
3 posts
As someone who currently makes a living providing that liberal arts education...
but don’t worry - I have a very New York-like quadruple-bolt-lock system...
– Leigh
Don’t believe for one second that the best teachers are at the top tier...
May 2011
7 posts
BEGINNING my studies, the first step pleas’d me so much,
The mere fact,...
– WALT WHITMAN
I was probably the last generation of Americans until the present day who could...
– Bill Clinton
Why “Double” Strawberry cake, you ask? Well, the cake layers are...
ons from random people I dont’ care about about what I’m gonna do...
– sarah
architecture asks us to imagine that happiness might often have an...
– alain de botton
If you’re worthless because one person doesn’t want to date you anymore, then...
– Carolyn Hax
Nature unchecked, with original energy
– Walt Whitman
April 2011
10 posts
Instead, he says, he’s going about leading in the old-fashioned way:...
– on John Maeda
I ate the Jell-O, I drank the Kool-Aid. But now I realize that what I thought...
– John Maeda
When life gives you pink lemons, and not a whole lot of sugar, make TJ’s...
– Sarah
If I can suspend disbelief when I read about Elinor Dashwood reuniting with...
– ELEANOR BARKHORN
Harvard is the best high school you can choose
interesting does not come from greatness. Interesting comes from conflict.
– Penelope Trunk
Also, kids know how to do what teachers assign. But they have little idea of how...
– Penelope Trunk
Be kind. Be engaged. Be optimistic. Be connected. Most people who say they are...
– Penelope Trunk
I’ve been hired to act as an interpreter for some Egyptian government...
– Eliot
Juri, of course I’ll make you a sandwich. To explain, sprouting your...
– Giselle
March 2011
4 posts
It occurs to me from time to time that one of the best reasons to live is to...
– Emily Leonard
Cognitive overload, poorly defined preferences and imperfect self-control can...
– Judith Scott-Clayton
Recently though, I’ve been told that if you don’t devote your life...
– jinjoo hwang
This is the city of No. It’s where my heart lives. It’s four days...
– Katherine’s four-year old student’s paper
February 2011
10 posts
You can’t ever really describe the feeling until you’ve stolen two cans of...
– David Choe
maybe you just have long arms..like a gorilla
Little-san, it is free for everyone!
– Eliot to Giselle
you can’t do anything when there’s this much white...
There is a support group for this. We meet every night at the bar of your...
Throughout history both the US government and industry have sought to exploit...
– Iris Chang
I know a young woman who trains cats how to pee from a toilet seat — and she...
– Ramit Sethi
For some the destination was America, for others it was Hong Kong, but for most...
– Iris Chang
Your firm reached saturation point. You would have to look elsewhere to find...
People do not casually leave an inherited way of life. Events must be extreme...
– Iris Chang
January 2011
26 posts
the ‘profession’ of design is kind of a myth. it depends on a large...
wash your face with Coca-Cola to fend off the effects of tear gas
– http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/30/world/middleeast/30arab.html?ref=middleeast
… is being drawn together by economic woes and a shared resentment that...
– http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/30/world/middleeast/30arab.html?ref=middleeast
The poor are poor in many ways beyond money. They’re poor in education,...
– http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/01/28/beyond-the-business-suit/ comment
I really wonder what kind of country this is going to be, with a minority of...
– JL, Nytimes comment
Even bigger than ___ is the inside of your head.
– after Soseki
I have a novel idea, why don’t all the educators and policy makers in this...
– 144.
kallian publico
Brooklyn, NY
January 25th, 2011 11:38 am
The imbalance between research and teaching has led to curricula that are...
– Mark C Taylor