To know more

Being able to "go beyond the information" given to "figure things out" is one of the few untarnishable joys of life. One of the great triumphs of learning (and of teaching) is to get things organised in your head in a way that permits you to know more than you "ought" to. And this takes reflection, brooding about what it is that you know. The enemy of reflection is the breakneck pace - the thousand pictures. Jerome S. Bruner "The Culture of Education"

Quotable Sunday

Doing what you wanted to do was the only training, and the only preliminary, needed for doing more of what you wanted to do. Kingsley Amis "Lucky Jim"

Begin

Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Begin it now.
Goethe.