“The U.S. education system is not as internationally competitive as it used to be. The rest of the developed world is catching up, and some countries are surpassing the United States in high school and college completion, all while spending much less per student.”—A really scary report from the Council on Foreign Relations on the trajectory of U.S. education. (via poptech)
“It’s the action, not the fruit of the action, that’s important. You have to do the right thing. It may not be in your power, may not be in your time, that there’ll be any fruit. But that doesn’t mean you stop doing the right thing. You may never know what results come from your action. But if you do nothing, there will be no result.”—Quote by Mahatma Gandhi: It’s the action, not the fruit of the action, t…
“But what the data self may ultimately offer is a bridge to precisely that kind of contentless identity, an identity that doesn’t signify. Rather than being hopelessly trapped in authenticity games, the data self, as an outsourcing of identity, could point toward postauthenticity, in which the momentum of sharing itself is all that needs to be shared, and identity becomes noninterpretable.”—Google Alert for the Soul – The New Inquiry
