I still don't know how to cook and that's just unacceptable.
Schooling, by definition, must be conservative. It is naturally dependent on an older generation’s level of knowledge and sense of values.
If Beethoven were sent to nursery school today, they would medicate him, and he would be a postal clerk.
No scientist, engineer, writer, psychologist, artist, or physician - and certainly no scholar, and therefore no serious university faculty member - pursues his or her vocation by getting right answers from a set of prescribed alternatives that trivialize complexity and ambiguity.
At best, most college presidents are running something that is somewhere between a faltering corporation and a hotel.
I know nothing about this subject, but I do have prejudices, which I am more than happy to share with you.
Learning, like love, death and eating, are fundamental human activities. It's at the core of human existence and its character has a resilience of continuity that is part of what makes up human nature. That is not fundamentally going to change.
You learn, just as you learn good manners, how to approach things with a certain amount of diplomacy.
How clear, how lovely bright, How beautiful to sight Those beams of morning play; How heaven laughs out with glee Where, like a bird set free, Up from the eastern sea Soars the delightful day. To-day I shall be strong, No more shall yield to wrong, Shall squander life no more; Days lost, I know not how, I shall retrieve them now; Now I shall keep the vow I never kept before. Ensanguining the skies How heavily it dies Into the west away; Past touch and sight and sound Not further to be found, How hopeless under ground Falls the remorseful day.
Easter spells out beauty, the rare beauty of new life.
Some people get rich studying artificial intelligence. Me, I make money studying natural stupidity.