The things you're lookingfor, Montag, are in the world, but the only way the average chap willever see ninety-nine per cent of them is in a book. Fahrenheit 451
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Quote:- The third serious problem the culture of customer service as we know it creates is turning every profession into a customer service tool to generate profits. In doing so, we risk the loss of creativity, quality, and critical thinking in many walks of life. Nowhere is this risk clearer and more damaging than viewing students at different educational institutions as customers, and nowhere this trend has been happening more rapidly than at schools, colleges, and universities, especially at private institutions. There is severe damage done to creativity and critical thinking when all students want is an A, and in fact feel entitled to get it since they (or their parents) are paying hundreds of thousands of dollars to attend elite schools. Many educators are under enormous pressure to give students grades they do not deserve in order to avoid receiving bad student evaluations (or to ensure getting good ones). This pressure is intensifying as academic jobs become increasingly contingent and precarious, where teaching staff are hired under short contracts only renewed based on so-called ‘performance,’ which is often measured by student evaluations and enrollment. When this happens, academic and intellectual compromises and corruption increase. Colleagues at elite American universities have been pressured to give students grades no lower than a B, with the explanation that this is what is ‘expected.’ Rampant grade inflation is unethical and unacceptable. Unfortunately, when graduate instructors resist professors’ instructions to fix grades by grading according to independent criteria of intellectual merit, they may be verbally chastised or worse, fired. This humiliation not only reinforces the norm of inflating grades, it also bolsters the power of the tenured professors who instruct their teaching assistants to do it.
Author:- Louis Yako
Category:- knowledge
Quote:- The thirst for fame either kicks you in the abyss of darkness or doesn't let you rest.
Author:- Spriha Kant
Category:- Life
Quote:- The thirst for knowledge is like a piece of ass you know you shouldn't chase; in the end, you chase it just the same.
Down by the River Where the Dead Men Go
Author:- George Pelecanos
Category:- knowledge
Quote:- The thirst for knowledge, exploration, or finding that which we seek lives in everyone.
The Magic of Nature: Meditations & Spells to Find Your Inner Voice
Author:- Jessica Marie Baumgartner
Category:- knowledge
Quote:- The thought came over me that never would one full and absolute moment, containing all the others, justify my life, that all of my instants would be provisional phases, annihilators of the past turned to face the future, and that beyond the episodic, the present, the circumstantial, we were nobody.
Selected Non-Fictions
Author:- Jorge Luis Borges
Category:- time
Quote:- The thought of an impending 'storm' that is accompanied with change is enough to send many fleeing to their confined box of predictability and familiarity.
Author:- Jay D'Cee
Category:- hope,time,motivational
Quote:- The thought of our past years in me doth breed Perpetual benediction: not indeed For that which is most worthy to be blest— Delight and liberty, the simple creed Of Childhood, whether busy or at rest, With new-fledged hope still fluttering in his breast.
Author:- William Wordsworth
Category:- hope
Quote:- The thought of separating from Jessica was like having his guts ripped out, but these days being married to Jessica was like having his guts ripped out. Whatever way you looked at it: guts ripped out.
Nine Perfect Strangers
Author:- Liane Moriarty
Category:- Relationships
Quote:- The thoughts of all men arise from the darkness. If you are the movement of your soul, and the cause of that movement precedes you, then how could you ever call your thoughts your own? How could you be anything other than a slave to the darkness that comes before?
The Darkness That Comes Before
Author:- R. Scott Bakker
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- THE THREADS OF FRIENDSHIP ARE THINNER THAN A SPIDER WEB BUT STRONGER THAN A STEEL WIRE. IF IT IS BROKEN, IT WILL BE BROKEN BY BREATH, OTHERWISE IT WILL NOT BE BROKEN BY EVEN LIGHTNING.
Author:- SACHIN RAMDAS BHARATIYA
Category:- Life
Quote:- The three creative prototypes, the scientist, the artist, and the saint, know instinctively, without the help of any mere philosopher, that each must obey an absolute rule of conduct. Three words established and hallowed by usage express the divinities, the values, the supreme aims served respectively by these three kinds of men with an undivided loyalty: truth for the scientist; beauty for the artist; goodness for the saint. The discussion on what these words mean will never end. We must be content with taking note of their clarity as symbols, and of the singular force which animates them and makes of them powerful poles of attraction.
Essays with a Purpose
Author:- Salvador de Madariaga
Category:- science
Quote:- The three most important words in a relationship are not, 'I love you,' but, 'Tell me more.
Author:- Stefan Molyneux
Category:- philosophy,Relationships
Quote:- The three rules of the Librarians of Time and Space are: 1) Silence; 2) Books must be returned no later than the last date shown; and 3) Do not interfere with the nature of causality.
Guards! Guards!
Author:- Terry Pratchett
Category:- time
Quote:- The three-toed sloth lives a peaceful, vegetarian life in perfect harmony with its environment. A good-natured smile is forever on its lips...I have seen that smile with my own eyes. I am not one given to projecting human traits and emotions onto animals, but many a time during that month in Brazil, looking up at a sloth in repose, I felt I was in the presence of upside-down yogis deep in meditation or hermits deep in prayer, wise beings whose intense imaginative lives were beyond the reach of scientific probing.
Life of Pi
Author:- Yann Martel
Category:- science
Quote:- The thrust of continuous action is the firewood which fuels motivation.
The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success
Author:- Steve Backley
Category:- motivational
Quote:- The tide can always turn in unknown time.
Author:- Lailah Gifty Akita
Category:- motivational,hope
Quote:- The tides are in our veins, we still mirror the stars, life is your child, but there is in meOlder and harder than life and more impartial, the eye that watched before there was an ocean.
Author:- Robinson Jeffers
Category:- poetry
Quote:- The tides are turning.Everybody else is waking up,becoming more awake, aware, seeking knowledge,challenging the assumptions.'They' call it 'woke' and demean it...'They' may be--may aspire to be--the authorities,may judge and smirk and wield their swords,but 'everybody else' knows what's really happening.And the forces of change, however resisted,will continue to awakenus all.
Author:- Shellen Lubin
Category:- knowledge