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bapesaurus reblogged bookloverSource: sforzinda
Bibliolexicon, A Passion for Books (x)
Which one are you?
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“Grades really cover up failure to teach. A bad instructor can go through an entire quarter leaving absolutely nothing memorable in the minds of his class, curve out the scores on an irrelevant test, and leave the impression that some have learned and some have not. But if the grades are removed the class is forced to wonder each day what it’s really learning, The questions, What’s being taught? What’s the goal? How do the lectures and assignments accomplish the goal? became ominous. The removal of grades exposes a huge and frightening vacuum.”— Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, 204. -
An even better painting by John Atkinson Grimshaw, imo: Park Row, Leeds, in 1882.
Contrast that with what Park Row looks like today. Criminal.
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“Liberalism is peculiar and unlikely because it proceeds by inventing a wholly artificial human being who has never really existed, and then pretending that we are all instances of such a species. This is the pure individual, thought of in abstraction from his or her gender, birth, associations, beliefs […] To this blank entity one attaches ‘rights’.”
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peterdroberts reblogged et-in-arcadia-egoSource: donoyoninazeporuno
One does not simply walk into Chile.
