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"Moral of the story: the internet makes dumb people dumber and smart people smarter. If you..."

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 09:42:42 -0500

“Moral of the story: the internet makes dumb people dumber and smart people smarter. If you don’t know how to use it, or don’t have the background to ask the right questions, you’ll end up with a head full of nonsense. But if you do know how to use it, it’s an endless wealth of information. Just as globalization and de-unionization have been major drivers of the growth of income inequality over the past few decades, the internet is now a major driver of the growth of cognitive inequality. Caveat emptor.”

- Mother Jones

"My 10-year-old, who likes to make little videos on his laptop, wanted some music for one and said,..."

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 09:02:51 -0500

“My 10-year-old, who likes to make little videos on his laptop, wanted some music for one and said, ‘Dad, can I go on the Internet and get your music?’” Glass says. “And I said, ‘Sure you can.’ He came back about 20 minutes later and said, ‘Dad, I just downloaded your whole catalog.’ He’s 10 years old. He’s 10 years old!”

- Philip Glass’s Life as an East Village

Noam Chomsky - The Purpose of Education

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:41:26 -0500

Noam Chomsky - The Purpose of Education

"Productive learning is the learning process which engenders and reinforces wanting to learn more...."

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 13:18:52 -0500

“Productive learning is the learning process which engenders and reinforces wanting to learn more. Absent wanting to learn, the learning context is unproductive or counterproductive.”

- Seymour Sarason; And What Do YOU Mean by Learning?

"For the first time in history, colleges and universities fully control the means of eTextbook..."

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 09:22:02 -0500

“For the first time in history, colleges and universities fully control the means of eTextbook production, start to finish, inception to delivery. They need no help in producing world class eTextbooks. The seeds of revolution are in hand.”

- Thinking About Tomorrow

robertogreco: MUST WATCH: Wilson Miner on “When We Build” at...

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 10:46:53 -0500

robertogreco:

MUST WATCH: Wilson Miner on “When We Build” at Build

Update: Here’s a link to Wilson’s notes, including references. I’ll have more to say about this, but that will have to wait for now. Watch the video. Watch the video.

"I think you work out something. I wouldn’t call them ideas. I think ideas are what you want to get..."

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 16:16:29 -0500

““I think you work out something. I wouldn’t call them ideas. I think ideas are what you want to get rid of. I don’t really like songs with ideas. They tend to become slogans. They tend to be on the right side of things: ecology or vegetarianism or antiwar. All these are wonderful ideas but I like to work on a song until those slogans, as wonderful as they are and as wholesome as the ideas they promote are, dissolve into deeper convictions of the heart.”

- Leonard Cohen

"There were two people in him, he told me: one who feels as he ought to feel and one who feels the..."

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 13:04:26 -0500

“There were two people in him, he told me: one who feels as he ought to feel and one who feels the opposite. From the one who feels the opposite I make my evil characters; from the one who feels as a man ought to feel I try to live my life. Only two people? I asked.”

- Dickens and Dostoevsky

"Frankly, if people in Romania can download my books and enjoy them, more power to them. They weren’t..."

Sat, 14 Jan 2012 14:57:48 -0500

“Frankly, if people in Romania can download my books and enjoy them, more power to them. They weren’t going to pay me anyway.
- Tim O’Reilly”

"I don’t think you’re really through…when you’re learning about something and dissecting it, I don’t..."

Mon, 09 Jan 2012 16:09:47 -0500

“I don’t think you’re really through…when you’re learning about something and dissecting it, I don’t think you’re really through until you don’t understand anything about it. If you study something and you find all this stuff about it, you just went skin deep, so if you keep going and going, you should be left with a fucking mess of unanswered questions. If you take any subject and keep asking, “Why,” without stopping, you’ll get to a point where there really isn’t any clear answers. It can be a bit painful and scary, so I think that’s a fun way to come at it.”

- Louis CK on Learning

[Cartoon by Roz Chast, New Yorker, March 22, 2010]

Mon, 09 Jan 2012 10:05:00 -0500

[Cartoon by Roz Chast, New Yorker, March 22, 2010]

"Once in his life a man ought to concentrate his mind upon the remembered earth. He ought to give..."

Fri, 06 Jan 2012 16:01:36 -0500

“Once in his life a man ought to concentrate his mind upon the remembered earth. He ought to give himself up to a particular landscape in his experience; to look at it from as many angles as he can, to wonder upon it, to dwell upon it. — N. Scott Momaday”

- Do We Need New Traits to Live Within Limits?

"Decades ago, when the Finnish school system was badly in need of reform, the goal of the program..."

Wed, 04 Jan 2012 14:27:46 -0500

“Decades ago, when the Finnish school system was badly in need of reform, the goal of the program that Finland instituted, resulting in so much success today, was never excellence. It was equity.”

- What Americans Keep Ignoring About Finland’s School Success

"Now that it is 70 years since Joyce’s death, the copyright on his work expires. Previously tightly..."

Wed, 04 Jan 2012 09:51:20 -0500

“Now that it is 70 years since Joyce’s death, the copyright on his work expires. Previously tightly controlled by his estate, performances of Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses, Finnegans Wake and his only play, Exiles , will no longer require permission or payment, although there is less clarity on unpublished and posthumous works, as well as letters. A James Joyce symposium at Trinity College Dublin in June will look at the whole area. In the meantime, expect a flood of adaptations of Joyce’s work.”

- The Irish Times

"To move not like a train on its tracks but like fog through the city."

Tue, 03 Jan 2012 10:46:15 -0500

“To move not like a train on its tracks but like fog through the city.”

- Geoff Manaugh (via robertogreco)

"I’ve learned that the smartest people in the room, the ones who know the most about a..."

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 10:51:01 -0500

“I’ve learned that the smartest people in the room, the ones who know the most about a business, might not be the ones who see the compelling nature of disruptive change.”

- Would You Pay $50 For Another Season Of ‘Community’?

Photo

Tue, 22 Nov 2011 11:55:39 -0500

"So for those of you doubtful that “modern slavery” really is an issue for the new international..."

Fri, 18 Nov 2011 13:32:12 -0500

“So for those of you doubtful that “modern slavery” really is an issue for the new international agenda, think of Srey Pov — and multiply her by millions. If what such girls experience isn’t slavery, that word has no meaning. It’s time for a 21st-century abolitionist movement in the U.S. and around the world.”

- The Face of Modern Slavery - NYTimes.com

"I firmly believe that one of the pressing unsolved technological problems of the modern age is..."

Tue, 15 Nov 2011 11:26:31 -0500

“I firmly believe that one of the pressing unsolved technological problems of the modern age is getting safely away from people you don’t like.”

Where children sleep

Wed, 02 Nov 2011 11:24:58 -0400

Where children sleep