February 2012
“Interest, interesse, means to be among and in the midst of things, or to be at...”
– Martin Heidegger, ”What is Called Thinking?” (via heartmindspirit)
The Disadvantages of an Elite Education →
austinkleon:
One of the great errors of an elite education, then, is that it teaches you to think that measures of intelligence and academic achievement are measures of value in some moral or metaphysical sense. But they’re not. Graduates of elite schools are not more valuable than stupid people, or talentless people, or even lazy people. Their pain does not hurt more. Their souls do not weigh...
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