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schools were not concerned with curiosity. They were concerned with compliance. I loved a few of my teachers. But I cannot say that I truly believed any of them. Some years after I’d left school, after I’d dropped out of college, I heard a
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“Electronics is central to our lives but disappeared from our consciousness.”
― Invent To Learn: Making, Tinkering, and Engineering in the Classroom
― Invent To Learn: Making, Tinkering, and Engineering in the Classroom
“Too many times within the constraints of school students are taught that there is only one correct answer, or perhaps that there isn’t enough time to really explore many other possibilities. It is crucial to learning to have space for invention and innovation.”
― Invent To Learn: Making, Tinkering, and Engineering in the Classroom
― Invent To Learn: Making, Tinkering, and Engineering in the Classroom
“There is no communication in this world except between equals.”
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“I never liked jazz music because jazz music doesn't resolve. But I was outside the Bagdad Theater in Portland one night when I saw a man playing the saxophone. I stood there for fifteen minutes, and he never opened his eyes.
After that I liked jazz music.
Sometimes you have to watch somebody love something before you can love it yourself. It is as if they are showing you the way.
I used to not like God because God didn't resolve. But that was before any of this happened.”
― Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality
After that I liked jazz music.
Sometimes you have to watch somebody love something before you can love it yourself. It is as if they are showing you the way.
I used to not like God because God didn't resolve. But that was before any of this happened.”
― Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality
“The greatest disease in the West today is not TB or leprosy; it is being unwanted, unloved, and uncared for. We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread but there are many more dying for a little love. The poverty in the West is a different kind of poverty -- it is not only a poverty of loneliness but also of spirituality. There's a hunger for love, as there is a hunger for God.”
― A Simple Path: Mother Teresa
― A Simple Path: Mother Teresa
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