Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? ― T.S. Eliot, “Choruses from ‘The Rock’” In primary school, we are often taught to seek the “correct” answer. I remember being rewarded for memorizing and properly reciting the times tables, and learning the order of the alphabet. Critical thinking was introduced slowly, as book summaries became analyses and math solutions gained real world contexts. But, as is true with every t

I worked with a family friend, Jill Littlestein, who is a working artist and feminist in her mid-60’s on art. We discussed my summer reading mandatory books: Lord of the Flies (1954) and All Quiet on the Western Front (1929), and how unappealing they were at this time. She told me, “C’mon? Again with the old white men from the 1900s? Wow, they need to update the books and provide more diversity.” Jill was born in the mid-1950s and she opinionated on many ideals and lived th

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