In the early 1980s, before I got an Atari 2600, a classroom at my high school had some Choose Your Own Adventure (#ad) books. I read every book they had at the time and that supercharged my thoughts about randomness, replayability, alternate paths, alternate endings, and anything to do...
Thus, it forms one of the few parts of mathematics which, at least in scattered catch-words, is talked about in wide circles, so that any teacher may be asked about it at any moment. … Imagine a teacher of physics who is unable to say anything about Röntgen rays, or about radium...
Inclusion And Diversity Quotes We need to give each other the space to grow, to be ourselves, to exercise our diversity. We need to give each other space so that we may both give and receive such beautiful things as ideas, openness, dignity, joy, healing, and inclusion. —Max De Pree ...
[While in school, before university,] I, like almost all chemists I know, was also attracted by the smells and bangs that endowed chemistry with that slight but charismatic element of danger which is now banned from the classroom. I agree with those of us who feel that the wimpish ...
Politicians who act from moral certainty, from the sense that any and all opponents are beyond the pale because they're morally reprobate, have no patience for and no commitment to democracy's limitations to power, its provisions for compromise by its inclusion of different viewpoints at the ta...
The imagery of a rat caught by the tail and dashed against the floor highlight Okonkwo’s inability to escape tribal customs, customs he must uphold to validate his status as a man Quote: Obierika was a man who thought about things. When the will of the goddess had been done, he sat...