“Be a student, not an expert.”
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“Hunt for sharks, but do not forget to develop your survival skills on small fish.”
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“To know the self you must forget the self,
To find the self you must lose the self.
Focus on learning curves, not burning carbs -
Focus on expansion, not on contracting descent.”
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“My Chinese language skills helped me out a lot these days!”
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“Insights come when you deeply observe the outside.”
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“I often tell myself, I am young, my body is strong, and I delay making appointment after appointment, physical after physical, until I think about my mother, and I schedule something for the next week.”
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“Ever since third grade you make mushroom clouds out of mushroom soup.”
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“A: stands for the province of Alberta. Alberta is the home of the Calgary stampede, and Canada’s largest mall, the West Edmonton Mall. Edmonton is its capital. Alberta has beautiful Rocky Mountains to the west and
flat prairie farmland to the east.”
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“F: stands for the Falls, better known as Niagara Falls also in the province of Ontario. People come from all over the world to see the majestic, rapid flowing Falls we share with our neighbours the United States. The Falls provide much of Ontario their hydro electric power.”
Source: Canada's Kiddie Geography and History in ABC's...
“One of the greatest disservices we do to our students is to teach them that universal physical law is something that obviously ought to be true and thus may be legitimately learned by rote. This is terrible on many levels, the worst probably being the missed lesson that meaningful things have to be fought for and often require great suffering tomorrow achieve. The attitude of complacency is also opposite to the one that brought these beautiful new ideas into the world in the first place—indeed, what brings things of great importance into the world generally.”
Source: A Different Universe: Reinventing Physics From the Bottom Down