Grades are a problem. On the most general level, they're an explicit acknowledgment that what you're doing is insufficiently interesting or rewarding for you to do it on your own. Nobody ever gave you a grade for learning how to…

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Writing is really very easy. Tap a vein and bleed onto the page. Everything else...

Writing is really very easy. Tap a vein and bleed onto the page. Everything else...

Higher education is everybody's rite

Higher education is everybody's rite

Writing is really very easy. Tap a vein and bleed onto the page. Everything else...

Writing is really very easy. Tap a vein and bleed onto the page. Everything else...

For us to maintain our way of living, we must tell lies to each other...

For us to maintain our way of living, we must tell lies to each other...

What I fear and desire most in this world is passion. I fear it because...

What I fear and desire most in this world is passion. I fear it because...

No matter what we call it, poison is still poison, death is still death, and...

No matter what we call it, poison is still poison, death is still death, and...

The insolence of authority is endeavoring to substitute money for ideas

The insolence of authority is endeavoring to substitute money for ideas

I think nothing is religion which puts one individual absolutely above others, and surely nothing...

I think nothing is religion which puts one individual absolutely above others, and surely nothing...

Great men in judicial places will never want authority

Great men in judicial places will never want authority

He who has no bread has no authority

He who has no bread has no authority

The key to the behavior of subjects lies not in pent-up anger or aggression, but...

The key to the behavior of subjects lies not in pent-up anger or aggression, but...

The younger generation is supposed to rage against the machine, not for it. They're supposed...

The younger generation is supposed to rage against the machine, not for it. They're supposed...

The current state of the news media is partially to blame for the publics general...

The current state of the news media is partially to blame for the publics general...

The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon...

The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon...

[I]f we and our posterity reject religious instruction and authority, violate the rules of eternal...

[I]f we and our posterity reject religious instruction and authority, violate the rules of eternal...

The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.

The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.

Homo sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority,...

Homo sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority,...

Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere

Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere

Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. He doesn't...

If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. He doesn't...

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

I have never been jealous. Not even when my dad finished fifth grade a year...

I have never been jealous. Not even when my dad finished fifth grade a year...