#slickrock — Public Fediverse posts
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[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
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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
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The genius of fascism is that any political structure can host the virus and virtually any developed country can become a suitable home. Fascism talks ideology but it is really just marketing for power.
-- Toni Morrison (Racism and Fascism)⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #ToniMorrison #Fascism #Marketing #Politics #Power
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #LakePowell #SlickRock #Canyon #Utah
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A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her.
-- David Brinkley⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #DavidBrinkley #Success
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Canyon #SlickRock #IcebergCanyon #LakePowell #Utah