Tag: Inspirational Quote
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Summer Reading: Celebrating Adam Smith’s Legacy
This post honours three occasions: the coming of summer (and the tradition of summer reading), the birthday of Adam Smith (more accurately, his baptism on June 16, 1723), and the 250th anniversary of the publication of An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
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“Experience is the hardest kind of teacher. It gives you the test first and the lesson afterward.”
This quote by Oscar Wilde offers a lesson to students who are bored by studying. You can complain that your teacher is world class, at curing insomnia. You can complain that the examples used in class were excellent, 50 years ago. You can complain that doing well on tests is irrelevant, since employers rarely ask…
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“It’s what you learn after you know it all that counts.”
This quote, from a successful basketball coach, reveals an aspect of learning which is poorly understood by people who have spent “too much” time in school. Teachers try to teach as much as possible because, in part, they know that there is so much more to learn. Even so, some students think that what they…
5 Basic Principles of Economics 