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The előrehozott érettségi behind me, and armed with my trusty Magyar-Angol for Android, I have started reading Hungarian again!

A set back for graduates of the university of life: "..,the real world did not provide the optimal frequency and sequence of problems for learning." pg 353

"There is something creepily familiar about about this go north argument." pg 310 ...no kidding!

"...but the tradeoff is additional time spent with the learning materials." pg 328 - very revealing about the commercial origin of some of this research: most teachers would be delighted if students spent more time with their learning materials.

"Exits are clearly marked but impossible to get to." pg 298 - exactly how I feel about IKEA.

"Vagueness is a matter of there being no sharp boundary" (pg 39) Or, there being no agreement about what the boundary should be. Evidence - at last -that my brain is still working!

"Vagueness is a matter of there being no sharp boundary" (pg 39) Or, there being no agreement about what the boundary should be. Evidennce, at last, that my brain is still working!

"This generation - it's almost a religious thing now. The millenium, the end days, no need to be responsible anymore to the future. A burden has been lifted from them. The Baby Jesus is managing the portfolio of earthly affairs, and nobody begrudges him the carried interest..." pg 283

"This generation - it's almost a religious thing now. The millenium, the end days, no need to be responsible anymore to the future. A burden has been lifted from them. The Baby Jesus is managing the portfolio of earthly affairs, and nobody begrudges him the carried interest..."

"By definition, a vague word is one for which some objects do, or could fall within its penumbra" pg 30

"Maxine recoils, only partly out of the classic accountant's allergy to real folding money" pg 161

"feedback that involve some kind of normative information such as a grade or even feedback that involves praise can direct attention to the ego and result in diminished [learning] effects." pg 266

"The task of the State is actively to produce the conditions under which a full human life can be lived" pg 230

"When you hear a term like "upper esophagal sphincter" in a narrated animation, you need to try to figure out what this term refers to...". All language lessons are like this.

"According to the cognitive theory of multimedia learning, the learner is actively seeking to make sense of the material" - that's one hell of an assumption!

"Faith, hope and charity transcend the human virtues, for they are virtues of man in so far as he is made a sharer in divine grace" pg 209

Hence their culture [of foreign strategic investors] can be regarded as superior to the local one and their role in the transition world could be considered civilizatory." - even if that was a word, I'm not sure I'd believe it.

Rather than being copy machines that record incoming information, humans are sense makers who try to see the meaningful relations between words and pictures.

"Everybody's had fun but me. The kind of fun everybody has is kicking someone around, someone small who can't fight back. Or they do you favors until they own you, or kill you."

One of the most startling consequences of researching instruction in corporate training rather than school teaching is that you can bypass all the sociological and ideological questions that the use of public funds entails. Refreshing!

"According to Magyar man. there is always a cleverer albeit convoluted solution to any given situation" pg 21 - Yes, but Magyar woman won't admit this.

A csarda burning in the night, illuminating both the power and the powerlessness of the Hungarian aristocracy.

OMG! An attack on Dr Suess, followed by a defense of Winnie-the-Pooh.

How can I not love a book that recommends "picking up copies of Aristotles Poetics and Rhetoric...Robert Mckees 'Story: Substance, Structure, Style and the Principles of Screenwriting'"

"Bevártam Virágot (aki másik csoportot írt..." Amazing, Hungarian teachers run two or more versions of the same test to counter cheating, didn't work in this case though!

Monks, huh!

Uh-oh, no paragraphs

"he knows God best who acknowledges that whatever he thinks and says falls short of what God really is" pg 131. Influence of Plato really clear in the section, God as the universal universal.

Like the original framework, our revision will be most beneficical to those who adapt it to their purposes. pg 259

"By systematically crushing, exiling and killing the bearers of tradition, morality and fairness for over half a century, a society makes itself unstable" pg 192. You have to wonder if he thinks he thinks a feudal aristocracy is the bearer of fairness, obviously not up to date with Game of Thrones.