“Life has always been an open-book exam”

“If teaching is largely about faculty-student interaction, then we have to recognize that human interaction is changing.”

“Time for reflection and interaction is a casualty of the digital age, and one of the primary goals of higher education should be to reclaim this time.”

“We understand why it is better to teach a starving man to fish, but a repertoire course is worse than handing a a fish to a starving man. Our students are not starving; if anything, they are drowni...”

“The problem of teaching, therefore, is getting not the facts but the context from my brain to yours.”

“As regards intellectual work it remains a fact, indeed, that great decisions in the realm of thought and momentous discoveries and solutions of problems are only possible to an individual, working ...”

“We are all alone, born alone, die alone, andin spite of True Romance magazineswe shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way. I do no...”

“I never really understood the word loneliness. As far as I was concerned, I was in an orgy with the sky and the ocean, and with nature.”

“Bucks, doe thank God everything boils down to money, I always say.""During mating season the doe constructs a bed for herself, and then she urinates all around the outside of it. That's how she ge...”

“Occasionally we must disconnect to reconnect later on.”

“It seems perverse that we can be more social than anyone would have thought possible when we are at our most anti-social, locked away from the world and silently staring at a computer screen, but t...”

“...the state of Virginia had turned down twenty-one thousand women for admission to state colleges in 1970 while not turning away a single man...”

“When we introduce new technologies into our classrooms we are teaching our students twice.”

“Understanding proximate cause is also like understanding your mother: It can take years and then, just when you think you have her figured out, she surprises you.”