April 2012
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“There’s no competitive advantage today in knowing more than the person next to...”
– Harvard’s Tony Wagner, author of Creating Innovators: The Making of Young People Who Will Change the World, speaking at Skillshare’s Penny 2012 conference.
Wagner’s insights echo John Seely Brown’s in the excellent A New Culture of Learning: Cultivating the Imagination for a World of Constant...
“You may not be a Picasso or Mozart but you don’t have to be. Just create to...”
– 5 manifestos for the creative life (via explore-blog)
“Education is what someone tells you to do and learning is what you do for...”
– Skillshare founder Mike Karnjanaprakorn opening the 2012 Penny Conference.
Also seeSir Ken Robinson on changing educational paradigms and lifelong learning.
(via explore-blog)
“Reading books is like debating with dead people in the margins. My books look...”
– Chef and entrepreneur Eddie Huang makes a comedic but brilliant case for marginalia at the 2012 Penny Conference. (via explore-blog)
HAHA yuuussss
“Schools have classes called ‘women’s studies,’ and ‘African-American literature’...”
– Cunt: A Declaration of Independence. (via thenewwomensmovement)
Bob Loblaw's Law Blog.: Anti-Intellecutalism in... →
deadpresidents:
Anonymous asked: Do you think Bush dumbed himself down to try to relate to the middle class?
Yes. So did Clinton, Bush 41, Reagan, and Carter — and those are just the modern Presidents; anti-intellectualism has been a campaign strategy for two centuries.
Carter is one of…
