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Heartbreaking photo essay of an abandoned school in Detroit

Andrea Zak — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 19:19:53 +0000

The interior of the former Detroit Public Schools’ book depository is the first of many heart-breaking photos in James Griffioen’s Vice Magazine photo essay. It’s not only sad to see a place of learning abandoned, but that so many resources that could have been used by other school districts and charities were left to rot is just criminal.

Via The Daily Dish

QOD: B.F. Skinner on learning

Andrea Zak — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 09:13:44 +0000

photo by extranoise

“Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.”

“We shouldn’t teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.”

B. F. Skinner, 1904-1990, psychologist

Practice, practice, practice

Andrea Zak — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 19:05:11 +0000

I keep telling people I have lots of ideas, that I’d love to pull into a novel, but I’m so worried about writing badly, I don’t even try.

As one friend pointed out to me — thinking about all the cars on the roads in the US. Very few are porsches that go from 0 to 60 in seconds. Writers are the same way, very few are brilliant coming out of the gate, which is why there are rewrites and multiple drafts.

Thanks Blue Gal!