Randomly Featured Quotation:

“No scientist, engineer, writer, psychologist, artist, or physician — and certainly no scholar, and therefore no serious university faculty member — pursues his or her vocation by getting right answers from a set of prescribed alternatives that trivialize complexity and ambiguity.” — Leon Botstein, president of Bard College, on multiple choice tests (and the SAT in particular)

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I’ve decided to start writing down interesting quotations that I run across, with hopes that one day I’ll have my own extensive database of quotations to draw from. I might as well share them; so I’ve uploaded my list and added a widget to display a random quote from the list at the top of this page. Click here to see my whole list.

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