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Entries from January 2008

Frosty Grail Quests

January 30th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Two paths diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Ever felt like you’re just wandering aimlessly through life? Ever wish someone would just show you the way? Tell you what [...]

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Tags: Growth

Word Play

January 29th, 2008 · 4 Comments

Alert and loyal reader, Jake Wisse, noticed that I’ve been “phoning it in lately with non-Chris content,” and was good enough to continue enabling my personal mediocrity by sending along the following interesting content (thanks Jake!):
Here is the Washington Post’s Mensa Invitational, which once again asked readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter [...]

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Tags: Fun Stuff

Education: Jung on our young

January 26th, 2008 · No Comments

“We have, consequently, the comparatively complex problem in educating our young of training them not simply to assume uncritically the patterns of the past, but to recognize and cultivate their own creative possibilities; not to remain on some proven level of earlier biology and sociology, but to represent a movement of the species forward.” [...]

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Tags: Learning