March 2012
10 posts
“A global education can start with a conversation right in your own dorm room. All it takes is for students to step outside their close circles bonded by privilege and get to know people with a different story and a different background.”
—A Global Education « Sound OFF (via nappturalquest)
“It’s really hard to hate someone for being different when you’re too busy laughing together.”
—George Takei (via authorlauralee)
“When we pulverize words, what is left is neither mere noise nor arbitrary, pure elements, but still other words, reflection of an invisible and yet indelible representation: this is the myth in which we now transcribe the most obscure and real powers of language.”
—Leandro Katz (via nknyhlt)
“The human mind is more amazing than the universe,” said my teenage daughter the other day. “How come?” I asked. “Well, it all really starts in our heads, doesn’t it? Like, without our minds there wouldn’t be a universe.”
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It got me thinking. The rift between what is and what is perceived is at least as old as philosophy itself. Yes, it has something to do with the popular “if a tree falls in a forest and no one sees it, did it fall?” or “if you are not looking at the moon is it really there?” But things are a bit more complex than that. (By the way, the answer is unequivocally “yes” to both of those questions, at least to this blogger.) -Marcelo Gleiser
(via npr)