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have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality,
order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself
on one subject at a time. - Charles Dickens My big problem is that I jump from subject to subject and rarely completely master or finish things. Be Like Charles. (Dec 2005) |
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Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.
- Albert Einstein
Success would be a nice side effect, though... |
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"Sin lies only in
hurting other people unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented
nonsense. (Hurting yourself is not sinful -- just stupid.)" -- Robert Heinlein, from the Notebooks of Lazarus Long. It's great; it's pretty much how I've always felt, but never been able to state so simply. |
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"The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and
the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that
honors the servant and has forgotten the gift." -- Albert Einstein This reflects my beef with the current education system so well. I can't help but feel dumber for having gone to high school. Yes, I know more, but knowledge is the lowest form of intelligence. We need a course designed solely to challenge the mind to be creative in a problem solving way. It bothered me so much to hear people in high school saying 'I hate word problems!' in math courses. Word problems are the only ones worth doing; they're real world applications of what you've learned. I hated getting an equation with the word 'solve' next to it. I'm finding this an issue in university, as well. There are next to NO real-world problems. I'm in engineering. What do engineers do? They solve real-world problems. |
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"A man's ethical behavior should be based
effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he
had to be restraned by fear of punishment and hope of reward after
death."
-- Albert Einstein Exactly |
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No man your lesser can insult you, no man your greater would.
-- unknown |
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It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein |
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I hate quotations.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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If the colleges were
better, if they really had it, you would need to get the police at the
gates to keep order in the inrushing multitude. See in college how we
thwart the natural love of learning by leaving the natural method of
teaching what each wishes to learn, and insisting that you shall learn
what you have no taste or capacity for. The college, which should be a
place of delightful labor, is made odious and unhealthy, and the young
men are tempted to frivolous amusements to rally their jaded spirits. I
would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by
compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise
instructor accomplishes this by opening to his pupils precisely the
attractions the study has for himself. The marking is a system for
schools, not for the college; for boys, not for men; and it is an
ungracious work to put on a professor.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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Universities are of
course hostile to geniuses, which, seeing and using ways of their own,
discredit the routine: as churches and monasteries persecute youthful
saints.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
-- Buddha |
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In every work of
genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us
with a certain alienated majesty. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Except when it comes to me and the MagLev train; it was a cherished thought. I thought that up one day walking home from school when I was about 12. Then I told my dad about my brilliant idea of a train that runs on a track of magnets to reduce friction and attain tremendous speeds while being extremely energy effiecient! Then he told me my idea already existed and it was called Maglev, and they'd had one in Germany for like 20 years. NOOOOO! |
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"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen."
-- Albert Einstein |
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