Brilliant lecturers shouldn't be wasted in lecture rooms: they should appear onTV. We need black market universities, in … - Theodore Zeldin

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I don't even wanna say female guitar-players, just guitar-players, because music of all things doesn't need to be gendered and stratified, that's so boring.

Theodore Zeldin

Brilliant lecturers shouldn't be wasted in lecture rooms: they should appear onTV. We need black market universities, in which people just help each other, and which don't leave out the poor.

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The brain is full of lonely ideas, begging you to make some sense of them, to recognize them as interesting. The lazy brain just files them away in old pigeonholes, like a bureaucrat who wants an easy life. The lively brain picks and chooses and creates new works of art out of ideas.

Lonely, Art, Ideas, Away, Like, Picks

Conversation is a meeting of minds with different memories and habits. When minds meet, they don't just exchange facts: they transform them, reshape them, draw different implications from them, engage in new trains of thought. Conversation doesn't just reshuffle the cards: it creates new cards.

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When will we make the same breakthroughs in the way we treat each other as we have made in technology?

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Art is, nowadays, our new religion and museums are our cathedrals.

Art, Cathedrals, Museums, Religion

The kind of conversation I like is one in which you are prepared to emerge a slightly different person.

Different, Kind, Conversation, Slightly, Prepared