Jay Matthews

As these standards became articulated and expressed more clearly, both in briefings to elite high school college admission counselors and in the results of the admissions themselves, ambitious high school students (and their families) learned how to perform them. They wouldn’t seek to be student body president or editor-in-chief of the school... See more

This is freedom unmasked. We have a right to live as we wish. Until we can’t. Our reckless history of human habitation in the American West is on a collision course with the climate crisis. Climate Change is not a hoax. It is real and it is a fire-breathing dragon blowing fire at our doors.

Geertz (1973) argues that the Enlightenment view of human nature placed such an overbearing emphasis on universal characteristics that it relegated the differential effects of culture to secondary status.

I n traditional evolutionary theory, species survival is dependent not on the organization of the group, but on the differential success of particular organisms in surviving and reproducing their genetic code.

1.start with existing centers or create strong ones that harmonize with the environment

To work like a gardener was to create life itself—the autonomous life of a visual universe that, in the artist’s words, was a world set in motion.

" Be kind to yourself, but at the same time skeptical and constructively critical, and you might just find the real you in there somewhere."