Why You Should Tilt at Windmills (and Other Quixotic Reflections) (excerpt)
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Why You Should Tilt at Windmills (and Other Quixotic Reflections) (excerpt)
In that spirit, here is a list of 10 things I think we could all do to unschool ourselves this summer: Read recklessly. Read promiscuously. Let your books talk to each other. Read at Whim. Treat your books as toys. Read trash! Read stuff you don’t think you’re supposed to! Go to the library and take wild chances on stuff you’ve never heard of. (Don
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We can imagine almost anything, but only a tiny fraction of what we imagine can become real. There is no easy way to verify how much change is possible. Hard-nosed realists may be right much of the time, but then, periodically, they become dramatically wrong. Wild-eyed visionaries may be wrong much of the time, but occasionally they become dramatic
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