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"The most used program in computers and education is PowerPoint. What are you learning about the nature of the medium by knowing how do to a great PowerPoint presentation? Nothing. It certainly doesn't teach you how to think critically about living in a culture of simulation."
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"Education is not only learning the information, but it is also about gaining experience to unlock the door to wisdom."

"Reading with an eye towards metaphor allows us to become the person we're reading about, while reading about them. That's why there is symbols in books and why your English teacher deserves your attention. Ultimately, it doesn't matter if the author intended the symbol to be there because the job of reading is not to understand the author's intent. The job of reading is to use stories as a way into seeing other people as a we ourselves."

"Education enhances the beauty of the mind by learning to see the beauty in every little thing."

"Like good reading skills, good writing skills require immersion and imaginative engagement."

"Literature is life."

"The principal goal of education in schools is to teach students basic knowledge and kindle mindsets that know how to think better and to understand the world in which they live."

"Education unfolds your beauty and lets you bloom to express your beauty."
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"Sometimes a citizenry should not simply 'be good'. You have to leave space for dissent, real dissent."

"From the earliest days, videogame players were less interested in winning than in going to a new psychic place where things were always a bit different, but always the same. The gambler and the videogame player share a life of contradiction; you are overwhelmed, and so you disappear into the game."

"Show me a person in my shoes who is looking for a robot, and I'll show you someone who is looking for a person and can't find one."

"When people turn other people into selfobjects, they are trying to turn a person into a kind of spare part."

"There is another way to think about conversation, one that is less about information and more about creating a space to be explored. You are interested in hearing about how another person approaches things-her or her opinions and associations. In this kind of conversation-I think of it as 'whole person conversation'-if things go quiet for a while you look deeper, you don't look away or text a friend. You try to read your friends in a different way. Perhaps you look into their faces or attend to their body language. Or you allow for silence. Perhaps when we talk about 'conversations' being boring, such a frequent complaint, we are saying how uncomfortable we are with stillness."

"The director of one of the nursing homes I have studied said, 'We do not become children as we age. But because dependency can look childlike, we too often treat the elderly as though this were the case."
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