joshua fost

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    Oysters & pearls

    Students are oysters. Education is sand.

    [ This entry was posted on 5-November-2009 9:20 am, filed under Aphorisms, Education. You can follow responses through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can also leave a response, or trackback from your own site. ]

    3 responses to “Oysters & pearls”

    1. cw says: (5-November-2009 10:41 am)

      pearl=?

    2. jwfost says: (5-November-2009 2:25 pm)

      pearl=learning.

      I.e. education is the foreign object which, when acted upon by the student’s mind (which I guess would have to be some sort of mucous) produces learning.

    3. wbt says: (5-November-2009 2:42 pm)

      then black pearl=genius. newton. good one – a metaphor with legs.


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