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2021-08-14 01:35:30 “Mankind will possess incalculable advantages and extraordinary control over human behavior when the scientific investigator will be able to subject his fellow men to the same external analysis he would employ for any natural object, and when the human mind will contemplate itself not from within but from without.”
— Ivan Pavlov Open / Comment

2021-08-14 01:00:51 “Education, for most people, means trying to lead the child to resemble the typical adult of his society... But for me, education means making creators... You have to make inventors, innovators, not conformists.”
— Jean Piaget Open / Comment

2021-08-14 01:00:40 “Children are perpetually surrounded by adults who not only know much more than they do, but who also do everything in their power to understand them, who even anticipate their thoughts and desires. Children, therefore... are perpetually under the impression that people can read their thoughts, and in extreme cases, can steal their thoughts away. It is obviously owing to this mentality that children do not take the trouble to express themselves clearly... This mentality does not contradict ego-centric mentality. Both arise from the belief of the child, the belief that he is the centre of the universe. These habits of thought account... for the remarkable lack of precision in the childish style.”
— Jean Piaget, The Language and Thought of the Child Open / Comment

2021-08-13 15:57:36 “...but the way that students are being prepared doesn't match what they'll be expected to do in order to solve real problems: adapt to jobs that may not exist yet, using skills we don't yet have words for, using technologies we're still inventing, to solve problems that didn't exist until recently. These are not the skills that are measured on national exams and college transcripts. The scores that students get today don't capture what they can and can't do.”
— Sue Khim, Scouting for Intellect Open / Comment

2021-08-06 18:41:37 “Neque enim ingenium sine disciplina aut disciplina sine ingenio perfectum artificem potest efficere.”

Translation from Latin
“Neither genius without discipline, nor discipline without genius, can form the perfect artist.”
— Vitruvius, De architectura Open / Comment

2021-08-06 17:28:32 “You know that I write slowly. This is chiefly because I am never satisfied until I have said as much as possible in a few words, and writing briefly takes far more time than writing at length.”
— Carl Friedrich Gauss Open / Comment

2021-07-31 23:52:16 Chinatown, #ost Open / Comment