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Arendt on Education

Education is the point at which we decide whether we love the world enough to assume responsibility for it and by the same token to save it from ruin, which, except for renewal, except for the coming of the new and the young, would be inevitable. An education, too, is where we decide whether we love our children enough not to expel them from our world and leave them to their own devices, nor to strike from their hands their choice of undertaking something new, something unforeseen by us, but to prepare them in advance for the task of renewing a common world. -- Hannah Arendt

Science and Error

The goal of science is not to open the door to everlasting wisdom, but to set a limit on everlasting error.
-From Galileo, by Bertold Brecht

Ephron on Blogging

"Blogs are what you are thinking the moment you are writing it" - Nora Ephron

New Clothes

Thoreau once said "Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes and not rather a new wearer of clothes." He continues about clothes in the section "Economy" in Walden.