"How do you teach a classroom of Sybils who are breaking apart and reforming right in front of you?"
- David Brooks
"Friends usually bring out better versions of each other. People feel unguarded and fluid with their close friends."
"Friendship allows you to see your own life but with a second sympathetic self."
"(William) Deresiewicz offers a vision of what it takes to move from adolescence to adulthood. Everyone is born with a mind, he writes, but it is only through introspection, observation, connecting the..."
"Ehimlite universities are strong at delivering their commercial mission. They are pretty strong in developing their cognitive mission. But when it comes to the sort of growth Deresiewicz is talking ab..."
"Freedom without structure is its own slavery."
"Universities, he (William Dershowitz) says, have been absorbed into the commercial ethos. Instead of being intervals of freedom, they are breeding grounds for advancement. Students are too busy jumpin..."
"most of us can only deny short-term pleasures because we see a realistic path between self-denial now and something better down the road."
"College is about exposing students to many things and creating an aphrodisiac atmosphere so that they might fall in lifelong love with a few."
"We are primarily the products of thinking that happens below the level of awareness."