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a professor of religion, Garrett E. Paul, told me about his course in “Ethics in Business and Economics.” Early in the term he assigned his students a paper that would be read aloud in class. “It gets them to write for their peers and not for the teacher,” he told me, “and what they learned was a revelation to them. They learned by the presence or
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The freedom of disregard.
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I was becoming a hoop-jumper just like Deresiewicz’s students at Yale, internalizing the idea that education is “doing your homework, getting the answers, acing the test.” I had not developed a sense that “something larger is at stake” as Deresiewicz says, and only was playing the game of student, not using my mind.
Paul Millerd • The Pathless Path: Imagining a New Story For Work and Life
The Trouble I’ve Seen,
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HENRY DAVID THOREAU
Julia Cameron • The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity
