“I think there's so much negative influence on children in school settings. It becomes learning by rote to pass a test. It's not contextualized.”
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I love people, and I love to be with people and to make music with people, but my natural state is to revert back to being by myself in my house, which is cool because that's where I practice and write and listen and study.
The benefit of the radio is, something beyond your realm of knowledge can surprise you, can enter your realm of knowledge.
I am looking forward to learning at the knee of Paul Ryan. He doesn't strike me as a politician. He strikes me as an economist.
The British system had requirements, including Latin. I'm not positive you ever had to know Greek, but there are certainly kinds of curricula where you had to know Greek too. I think in Britain there was the most mindless, repetitive sort of learning.