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  1. [Excessive testing teaches students] that learning is a joyless succession of hoops through which they must jump, rather than a way of understanding and mastering the world. Every question has one right answer; the measure of a person is a number. Being insightful, or creative, or heaven forfend, counterintuitive counts for nothing.
    -- Anna Quindlen (Newsweek June 2005)

    #Wisdom #Quotes #AnnaQuindlen #Education #StandardizedTesting

    #Photography #Panorama #LakePowell #SlickRock #Canyon #Utah

  2. [Excessive testing teaches students] that learning is a joyless succession of hoops through which they must jump, rather than a way of understanding and mastering the world. Every question has one right answer; the measure of a person is a number. Being insightful, or creative, or heaven forfend, counterintuitive counts for nothing.
    -- Anna Quindlen (Newsweek June 2005)

    #Wisdom #Quotes #AnnaQuindlen #Education #StandardizedTesting

    #Photography #Panorama #LakePowell #SlickRock #Canyon #Utah

  3. [Excessive testing teaches students] that learning is a joyless succession of hoops through which they must jump, rather than a way of understanding and mastering the world. Every question has one right answer; the measure of a person is a number. Being insightful, or creative, or heaven forfend, counterintuitive counts for nothing.
    -- Anna Quindlen (Newsweek June 2005)

    #Wisdom #Quotes #AnnaQuindlen #Education #StandardizedTesting

    #Photography #Panorama #LakePowell #SlickRock #Canyon #Utah

  4. [Excessive testing teaches students] that learning is a joyless succession of hoops through which they must jump, rather than a way of understanding and mastering the world. Every question has one right answer; the measure of a person is a number. Being insightful, or creative, or heaven forfend, counterintuitive counts for nothing.
    -- Anna Quindlen (Newsweek June 2005)

    #Wisdom #Quotes #AnnaQuindlen #Education #StandardizedTesting

    #Photography #Panorama #LakePowell #SlickRock #Canyon #Utah

  5. [Excessive testing teaches students] that learning is a joyless succession of hoops through which they must jump, rather than a way of understanding and mastering the world. Every question has one right answer; the measure of a person is a number. Being insightful, or creative, or heaven forfend, counterintuitive counts for nothing.
    -- Anna Quindlen (Newsweek June 2005)

    #Wisdom #Quotes #AnnaQuindlen #Education #StandardizedTesting

    #Photography #Panorama #LakePowell #SlickRock #Canyon #Utah

  6. If a system becomes weak enough and the opposition divided enough, if the ruling order is corrupt enough and people are angry enough, extremists can suddenly step into the center, where no one expects them. And after that it can take decades to undo the damage.
    -- Kontra (@counternotions)

    #Wisdom #Quotes #Kontra #Authoritarianism #Corruption #Politics

    #Photography #Panorama #LakePowell #SlickRock #Canyon #Utah

  7. If a system becomes weak enough and the opposition divided enough, if the ruling order is corrupt enough and people are angry enough, extremists can suddenly step into the center, where no one expects them. And after that it can take decades to undo the damage.
    -- Kontra (@counternotions)

    #Wisdom #Quotes #Kontra #Authoritarianism #Corruption #Politics

    #Photography #Panorama #LakePowell #SlickRock #Canyon #Utah

  8. If a system becomes weak enough and the opposition divided enough, if the ruling order is corrupt enough and people are angry enough, extremists can suddenly step into the center, where no one expects them. And after that it can take decades to undo the damage.
    -- Kontra (@counternotions)

    #Wisdom #Quotes #Kontra #Authoritarianism #Corruption #Politics

    #Photography #Panorama #LakePowell #SlickRock #Canyon #Utah

  9. If a system becomes weak enough and the opposition divided enough, if the ruling order is corrupt enough and people are angry enough, extremists can suddenly step into the center, where no one expects them. And after that it can take decades to undo the damage.
    -- Kontra (@counternotions)

    #Wisdom #Quotes #Kontra #Authoritarianism #Corruption #Politics

    #Photography #Panorama #LakePowell #SlickRock #Canyon #Utah

  10. If a system becomes weak enough and the opposition divided enough, if the ruling order is corrupt enough and people are angry enough, extremists can suddenly step into the center, where no one expects them. And after that it can take decades to undo the damage.
    -- Kontra (@counternotions)

    #Wisdom #Quotes #Kontra #Authoritarianism #Corruption #Politics

    #Photography #Panorama #LakePowell #SlickRock #Canyon #Utah

  11. In great affairs men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small things they show themselves as they are.
    -- Nicholas Chamfort

    #Wisdom #Quotes #NicholasChamfort #History

    #Photography #Panorama #LakePowell #SlickRock #Canyon #Utah

  12. In great affairs men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small things they show themselves as they are.
    -- Nicholas Chamfort

    #Wisdom #Quotes #NicholasChamfort #History

    #Photography #Panorama #LakePowell #SlickRock #Canyon #Utah

  13. In great affairs men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small things they show themselves as they are.
    -- Nicholas Chamfort

    #Wisdom #Quotes #NicholasChamfort #History

    #Photography #Panorama #LakePowell #SlickRock #Canyon #Utah

  14. In great affairs men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small things they show themselves as they are.
    -- Nicholas Chamfort

    #Wisdom #Quotes #NicholasChamfort #History

    #Photography #Panorama #LakePowell #SlickRock #Canyon #Utah

  15. In great affairs men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small things they show themselves as they are.
    -- Nicholas Chamfort

    #Wisdom #Quotes #NicholasChamfort #History

    #Photography #Panorama #LakePowell #SlickRock #Canyon #Utah

  16. There is no less invention in aptly applying a thought found in a book, than in being the first author of the thought.
    -- Pierre Bayle

    #Wisdom #Quotes #PierreBayle #Invention

    #Photography #Panorama #Canyon #SlickRock #IcebergCanyon #LakePowell #Utah

  17. There is no less invention in aptly applying a thought found in a book, than in being the first author of the thought.
    -- Pierre Bayle

    #Wisdom #Quotes #PierreBayle #Invention

    #Photography #Panorama #Canyon #SlickRock #IcebergCanyon #LakePowell #Utah

  18. There is no less invention in aptly applying a thought found in a book, than in being the first author of the thought.
    -- Pierre Bayle

    #Wisdom #Quotes #PierreBayle #Invention

    #Photography #Panorama #Canyon #SlickRock #IcebergCanyon #LakePowell #Utah

  19. There is no less invention in aptly applying a thought found in a book, than in being the first author of the thought.
    -- Pierre Bayle

    #Wisdom #Quotes #PierreBayle #Invention

    #Photography #Panorama #Canyon #SlickRock #IcebergCanyon #LakePowell #Utah

  20. There is no less invention in aptly applying a thought found in a book, than in being the first author of the thought.
    -- Pierre Bayle

    #Wisdom #Quotes #PierreBayle #Invention

    #Photography #Panorama #Canyon #SlickRock #IcebergCanyon #LakePowell #Utah

  21. The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.
    -- Barbara De Angelis

    #Wisdom #Quotes #BarbaraDeAngelis #Anger #Love #ThePast

    #Photography #Panorama #LakePowell #SlickRock #Canyon #Utah

  22. The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.
    -- Barbara De Angelis

    #Wisdom #Quotes #BarbaraDeAngelis #Anger #Love #ThePast

    #Photography #Panorama #LakePowell #SlickRock #Canyon #Utah

  23. A radiant node or cluster... from which, and through which, and into which, ideas are constantly rushing.
    -- Ezra Pound

    #Quotes #EzraPound #Networks

    #Photography #Panorama #Pictographs #RockArt #DefianceHouse #LakePowell #Utah