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“All genuine learning is active, not passive. It involves the use of the mind, not just the memory. It is a process of discovery, in which the student is the main agent, not the teacher.”

Book:Paideia Proposal

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Paideia Proposal

This book delves into the principles of Paideia, offering a comprehensive exploration of its impact on education and its role in fostering cultural and intellectual growth. more

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Mortimer Adler

Mortimer Adler, born on December 28, 1902 in Chicago, USA, and died on June 28, 2001, was a renowned philosopher, educator, and author. He is best known for his in-depth research and popularization of classical works, particularly for his co-authored book 'Great Books of the Western World' with Charles Van Doren. more

“Should at that moment the full moon Step forth upon the hill, And memories hard to bear at noon, By moonlight harder still, Form in the shadows of the trees, - Things that you could not spare And live, or so you thought, yet these All gone, and you still there, A man no longer what he was, Not yet the thing he planned.”

Men Should Stills Hard Moments Light Form Memories Steps Gone Tree Bears Moon Shadow Harder Hills That Moment Spares Moonlight Noon Full Moon

Book:Wine from these grapes

Source: Wine from these grapes

“The Zen masters have the right idea-no pain no gain: thwack a silly nebbish and he'll remember it far longer and more indelibly than any words you muster at him. Not absolutely everything can or should have to be explained, and particularly not to everybody. But a concussion is a value-judgment anyone gets the point of.”

Should Ideas Philosophy Pain Remember Values Memories Masters Judgment Gains Should Have Silly No Pain Muster Zen Master Concussions Right Ideas No Pain No Gain

Author:Kenny Smith

“To some extent, I have only lived to have something to outlive. By confiding these futile remembrances to paper, I am conscious of accomplishing the most important act of my life. I was predestined to Memory.”

Important Memories Paper Conscious Remembrance Predestined Confiding

Author:Oscar Milosz

“I can only guess that it made the world he went back to...strangely without meaning. Though he lived in it, though he even enjoyed it, it remained utterly remote. I think it had lost sense for him. In his heart was the reflection of a lovely dream that he could never quite recall.”

Thinking World Heart Made I Can Dream Lost Change Memories Reflection Lovely Enjoyed Recalls Never Quit

Author:W. Somerset Maugham

“Whoever lives for poetry must read everything. How often has the light of a new idea sprung for me from a simple brochure! When one allows himself to be animated by new images, he discovers iridescence in the images of old books. Poetic ages unite in a living memory. The new age awakens the old. The old age comes to live again in the new. Poetry is never as unified as when it diversifies.”

Book Ideas Light Age Memories Simple Old Age Poetry Is Poetic New Ideas New Age Animated Unified Sprung Old Books Brochures

Author:Gaston Bachelard

“There is something marvelously soft in the study of nature which attaches a name to every being, a thought to every name, affection and memories to every thought.”

Names Nature Memories Study Affection

Author:Charles Nodier

“He watched through a crack inside just pretending to be dead he wanted to fix each pallbearer in his memory . . . it seems to me a telephone was installed in the coffin to someone yet again Stalin is sending his instructions.”

Seems Wanted Memories Justice Cracks Pretending Instruction Telephones Coffins

Author:Yevgeny Yevtushenko

“Meek Walton's heavenly memory.”

Memories Heavenly Meek

Book:The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England, Now First Published with His Works ...

Source: The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England, Now First Published with His Works ...

“I'll note you in my book of memory.”

Book Memories Notes

Book:The plays and poems of William Shakspeare

Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare

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