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“If a free people is going to be reproduced, it will require watering and revivifying and owning anew older traditions and awaking the curiosity in the soul of each citizen. National greatness will not be recovered via a mindless expansion of bureaucratized schooling. Seventy years ago, Dorothy Sayers wrote, 'Sure, we demand another grant of money, we postpone the school leaving age and plan to build bigger and better schools. We demand that teachers further slave conscientiously in and out of school hours. But to what end? I believe,' Sayers lamented, 'all this devoted effort is largely frustrated because we have no definable goal for each child to become a fully formed adult. We have lost the tools of learning, sacrificing them to the piecemeal, subject matter approach of bureaucratized schooling that finally compromises to produce passive rather than active emerging adults. But our kids are not commodities, they are plants. They require a protected environment, and care, and feeding, but most basically, an internal yearning to grow toward the sunlight. What we need is the equipping of each child with those lost tools.”

Education Educational Philosophy Classical Education Dorothy Sayers

Book:The Vanishing American Adult: Our Coming-of-Age Crisis—and How to Rebuild a Culture of Self-Reliance

Source: The Vanishing American Adult: Our Coming-of-Age Crisis—and How to Rebuild a Culture of Self-Reliance

“Only seconds slip by without me scrambling for the aid of someone better, more knowledgeable, to walk beside. Writers are good for that. They like nothing more than to tell you what they know. Dorothy Sayers, with all her essays and treatises, was good for that. Are women human? What constitutes the mind of the Maker? How did Dante survive the Inferno? Ask Dorothy; she’ll tell you and gladly.”

Writing Rats Inferno Dante Dorothy Sayers Are Women Human Mind Of The Maker

Book:On Being a Rat and Other Observations

Source: On Being a Rat and Other Observations

“It cannot be denied that he has had many exceptional ideas, and that he is a highly intelligent man. For my part, however, I have always been taught to take a broad overview of things, in order to be able to deduce from them general rules, which might be applicable elsewhere.”

Science Intelligence Rules Overview Applications Deduction Fermat Pierre De Fermat

Author:René Descartes

“One rather curious conclusion emerges, that pure mathematics is on the whole distinctly more useful than applied. ... For what is useful above all is technique, and mathematical technique is taught mainly through pure mathematics.”

Technique Usefulness Applied Science Applications Applied Knowledge Pure Mathematics

Book:A Mathematician's Apology

Source: A Mathematician's Apology

“As for relegated/delegated responsibility to ensure organizational software licensing compliance, management is still accountable when intellectual property rights are violated. If the safeguarding responsibility is assigned to an ineffective and/or inefficient unit within an organization, IT audit should recommend an alternative arrangement after the risks are substantiated.”

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Author:Robert E. Davis

“We have concluded that the trivial mathematics is, on the whole, useful, and that the real mathematics, on the whole, is not.”

Mathematics Usefulness Applications Mathematicians

Book:A Mathematician's Apology

Source: A Mathematician's Apology

“Serge nodded. 'And I respect your opinion because you smoke marijuana. You're chemically biased against violence and job applications.”

Jobs Violence Marijuana Applications Job Applications

Book:Pineapple Grenade

Source: Pineapple Grenade

“As an applicant, you need to show recruiters that you have the skills, experience and knowledge that they need, and provide the evidence of this in a tailored application.”

Entrepreneurship Job Recruitment Applications Recruiter

Author:Chidiebere Prosper Agbugba

“Even a pure mathematician may find his appreciation of this geometry [applied geometry] quickened, since there is no mathematician so pure that he feels no interest at all in the physical world; but, in so far as he succumbs to this temptation, he will be abandoning his purely mathematical position.”

Appreciation Mathematician Applied Science Applications Physical World Pure Mathematics Applied Problem Solving

Book:A Mathematician's Apology

Source: A Mathematician's Apology

“What is it you do, then? I'll tell you: You leave out whatever doesn't suit you. As the author himself has done before you. Just as you leave things out of your dreams and fantasies. By leaving things out, we bring beauty and excitement into the world. We evidently handle our reality by effecting some sort of compromise with it, an in-between state where the emotions prevent each other from reaching their fullest intensity, graying the colors somewhat. Children who haven't yet reached that point of control are both happier and unhappier than adults who have. And yes, stupid people also leave things out, which is why ignorance is bliss. So I propose, to begin with, that we try to love each other as if we were characters in a novel who have met in the pages of a book. Let's in any case leave off all the fatty tissue that plumps up reality.”

Life Reality Inspiration Lifestyle Worldviews

Book:The Man Without Qualities: Volume I

Source: The Man Without Qualities: Volume I