June 2012
“But books are never just books. They’re markers, totems, memory keepers.”
– My Library, Myself - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education (via infoneer-pulse)
Selling the College Experience to Students Who... →
infoneer-pulse:
At small liberal arts colleges everywhere, you’ll often hear administrators and faculty talk about the idea of learning as much from living on a residential campus as one does in the classroom. That’s just one aspect of “the college experience” that critics of online education lament losing in the imagined future where most courses are taught online and the university as we know...
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“I think the names of colors are at the edge, between where language fails and...”
– ~ A.S. Byatt, http://mondonoir.tumblr.com/
“According to Unesco, the biggest single indicator of whether a child is going to...”
– Children with short attention spans ‘failing to read books’ - Telegraph (via infoneer-pulse)
“We are losing the skills of cooperation needed to make a complex society work.”
– Richard Sennett, Together
Interesting, and most likely true…
(via futuramb)
