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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

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  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. 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

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  5. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization.
    -- Petronius Arbiter (circa 60 CE)

    #Wisdom #Quotes #PetroniusArbiter #Confusion #Progress #Reorganization

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