4 Quotes by David Brooks about maturation
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The great works of art and literature have a lot to say on how to tackle the concrete challenges of living, like how to escape the chains of public opinion, how to cope with grief or how to build loving friendships. Instead of organizing classes around academic concepts — 19th-century French literature — more could be organized around the concrete challenges students will face in the first decade after graduation.
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Abilene had gone from boomtown to Bible Belt, from whorehouses to schoolmarms, without any of the intervening phases.
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In childhood, the inexplicableness of the world is still vivid and fresh, and sometimes hits with terrifying force.
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How do you teach a classroom of Sybils who are breaking apart and reforming right in front of you?
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