“Language for me narrates the pictures in my mind. When I work on designing livestock equipment I can test run that equipment in my head like 3-D virtual reality. In fact, when I was in college I used to think that everybody was able to do that.” ThinkingMindI CanFactsRealityRunningAbleUsedLanguageDesignCollegeTestsEquipmentVirtual RealityLivestock Author:Temple Grandin
“I was lucky enough to go to college for four years. At what was supposedly a hippie school with no tests and no grades, blah blah blah, I wasn't learning that. I was taking photography classes. That stuff just wasn't talked about. It was like, "Does this picture have the right about of grey in it?" It wasn't even an art school. It was a state-run school.” YearsDoeArtStatesEnoughRunningSchoolStuffClassFourCollegeLuckyPhotographyTestsGradesFour YearsGreyHippieArt SchoolBlah Author:Kathleen Hanna
“There have been many measures taken to try to turn the educational system towards more control, more indoctrination, more vocational training, imposing a debt, which traps students and young people into a life of conformity... That's the exact opposite of [what] traditionally comes out of The Enlightenment. And there's a constant struggle between those. In the colleges, in the schools, do you train for passing tests, or do you train for creative inquiry?” PeopleTryingHas BeensSchoolYoungTurnsStruggleCreativeTakenStudentsCollegeTrainingEnlightenmentTestsOppositesConstantTrainEducationalDebtPassingPassingsConformityTrapsInquiryImposingIndoctrinationEducational SystemConstant StruggleVocational TrainingPassing A Test Author:Noam Chomsky
“To preserve one's mind intact through a modern college education is a test of courage and endurance, but the battle is worth it and the stakes are the highest possible to man: the survival of reason.” MenMindReasonTeachingModernCollegeBattleSurvivalHighestTestsPreservesEnduranceStakesWorth ItCollege Education Book:The Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution Source: The Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution
“Organizer is kind of a grand term for what I was doing. I answered an ad that the Presbyterian Church of Chicago put up on college campuses. I was at the University of Kansas, and it's somewhat relevant to my life and work that I'm a Jew. But they weren't doing a religious litmus test. They wanted energetic, civil-rights-committed college students to come help them run some summer programs.” KindHelpingRunningWantedTermChurchReligiousRightsStudentsCollegeSummerProgramTestsUniversityCommittedJewCivil RightsChicagoRelevantAdsEnergeticCampusKansasOrganizerCollege StudentsPresbyteriansCollege Campus Author:Sara Paretsky
“As far as my sport is concerned, my mission is to make it as big as it deserves to be. We've been growing, it's just not as noticeable. The NCAA picked beach volleyball up to be a championship sport, and it was the fastest test sport that's been adopted. That's a really big deal for our sport because that just means the USA system is going to have a feeder system from the college system.” MeanBigsSportsDealsGrowingCollegeDeserveConcernedTestsMissionsBeachUsaChampionshipAdoptedBig DealVolleyballNcaaBeach Volleyball Author:Kerri Walsh
“Of course I want to test myself. I enjoy fighting. But I also have six kids, and I want them to go to college. I hope that I can reach a point where I get the best of both worlds.” WorldWantI CanKidsFightingCoursesEnjoyCollegeSixTestsBest Of Both Worlds Author:Houston Alexander