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Sunday, March 6th, 2011
One of the things I discovered about myself during the past year is that I'm a student, not a scholar. I've always thought of myself as a "lifelong student," but I'm not sure I really understood what that meant till recently.
In my view, a master's candidate is a student, a ...
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Monday, November 22nd, 2010
Here's a quote from Stephen Fry's novel Making History, one of the few passages that struck me as admirable in that lamentably bad book.If there is a word to describe our age, it must be Security, or to put it another way, Insecurity. From the neurotic insecurity of Freud, by ...
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Tuesday, July 21st, 2009
In this excerpt from Roald Dahl's Boy, his mother asks if he wants to go to Oxford or Cambridge.
"No, thank you," I said. "I want to go straight from school to work for a company that will send me to wonderful faraway places like Africa or China."
You must remember that ...
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Monday, July 20th, 2009
In the following excerpt from Roald Dahl's Boy, he's left public school at 18 to take a job with Shell Oil company. He is taking their internal training courses and is learning the business.
...[E]very morning, six days a week, Saturdays included, I would dress neatly in a sombre grey suit, ...
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Sunday, April 5th, 2009
Vaynerchuk tells anecdotes, but his main activities veer more into the uncool profession of teaching. In the above-linked interview he admits to being a "class clown," and I have found in my twenty years of teaching that that one characteristic is a better predictor of who ends up a teacher ...
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