Human beings are learning creatures. Babies come out of the womb curious and ready to learn. They immediately begin to explore and learn about their world, without our persuasion. Later, they learn how to walk and talk without being artificially motivated. They don’t take a course. They don’t ‘goof off’ while learning these skills because they’re bored or the ‘work’ is too hard. They are not marked, tested, graded or nagged to practice. They just do it. They are motivated by wanting to do these things well, like bigger people.
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Wendy Priesnitz, in the introduction entitled Learning in the Real World, from the book Life Learning: Lessons from the Educational Frontier
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“Our story is the story of the universe. Every piece of everyone, of everything you love and everything you hate, of the thing you hold most precious, was assembled by the forces of nature in the first few minutes of the life of the universe, transformed in the hearts of the stars or created in their fiery deaths.
And when you die, those pieces will be returned to the universe in the endless cycle of death and rebirth. What a wonderful thing it is to be part of that universe. And what a story, what a majestic story.”
Professor Brian Cox, Wonders of the Universe.
Film still from The Warrior’s Way (2010)
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Chloé Jo Davis photographed for Italian Elle by Amanda de Cadnet
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“life is beautiful” by farhad moshiri
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iranian artist farhad moshiri’s ‘life is beautiful’ work features hundreds of knives stabbing the walls at the pinault foundation’s palazzo grassi
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