Jan Ingemansen > Jan's Quotes

“if human beings really grasped how synthetic their world was - how much of it was stitched together not from direct perception, but from interpolation, memory, educated guesswork - they would go quietly mad.”
― Alastair Reynolds, Absolution Gap

“institutionalised learning in schools and institutions can tend to undermine the desire to learn, at least in certain contexts and under certain forms.”
― Knud Illeris, How We Learn: Learning and Non-Learning in School and Beyond