“War is the antithesis of all our teaching. It breaks all the commandments; it makes rich men poor, and strong men weak. It makes well men sick, and by it living men are changed to dead men.” MenWellsWarStrongPoorBreakRichTeachingChangedWeakSickCommandmentsRich ManDead ManStrong ManAntithesis Book:In Times Like These Source: In Times Like These
“...a college education feeds an adolescent in one end and gets a young adult out the other. In the process of those four years that person has changed significantly, and you and I have been agents of that change.....what happens, in the course of what we do, is soul making.” YearsPersonsHas BeensSoulEndsHappensYoungCoursesProcessFourTeachingChangedCollegeAdultsYoung AdultAgentsFour YearsCollege Education Author:Leroy S Rouner
“Caste is a state of mind. It is a disease of mind. The teachings of the Hindu religion are the root cause of this disease. We practice casteism and we observe Untouchability because we are enjoined to do so by the Hindu religion. A bitter thing cannot be made sweet. The taste of anything can be changed. But poison cannot be changed into nectar.” MindMadeStatesCausesPracticeTeachingChangedSweetTasteDiseaseRootsBitterPoisonState Of MindDeep ThoughtCastesNectarRoot CauseUntouchabilityHindu Religion Author:B. R. Ambedkar
“9/11 was my first day teaching at Harvard University. My classes were all canceled and I got back to town two days later. I'm one of those people who doesn't think the world has changed any at all since 9/11. It just seemed to be almost inevitable, something like that. That's one of the reasons why the backstory of Fay Grim goes all the way back into the '80s. I was trying to sketch out the continuity of all this hanky-panky between the security agencies of the world.” PeopleThinkingWorldWayTryingFirstsTwoReasonClassTeachingSecurityChangedTownsUniversityInevitableReason WhyAgency80sContinuityHarvardGrimTwo DaysHarvard University Author:Hal Hartley
“They [academy writing programs] have no concept that the world has changed, that publishing has changed, that filmmaking has changed, and if you're not constantly looking at your education model and adjusting for the change, you'll find yourself teaching antiquity. Like all of these programs that won't accept students who are writing genre fiction - what an institutional ego!” IfsWorldWritingFictionAcceptingTeachingChangedStudentsEgoModelsConceptsProgramGenreFinding YourselfFilmmakingPublishingAcademyAntiquityAdjusting Author:Tod Goldberg
“When I started teaching in the late 60s, in a time of student revolutions and changes, they changed in question of society and authority.” TeachingChangedStudentsRevolutionAuthorityLate Author:Michael Craig-Martin