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Changing the Subject: Essays on the Mediated Self QUOTES

Changing the Subject: Essays on the Mediated Self QUOTES

1 " Attention paid to the life, to the fact of life, to events and people, their enormous mattering--all the things that could not be more obvious when we're brought awake, but that really do get slurred away by distraction, sometimes for long periods, so that when the feeling does come back again, it seems like something that needs to be marked, sewn a la Blaise Pascal right into the lining of your coat--where you will always see it and remember "

― Sven Birkerts , Changing the Subject: Essays on the Mediated Self

2 " A man who never asks himself any questions had better not try asking others. In the centre of his being a teacher should have a sense of justice and a great capacity for dejection. Teachers in a place like this, where education is taken seriously, should always bear in mind that they are the central problem, that we would provide the students with a liberal education if we merely gave them the privilege of looking on while we educated ourselves "

― Sven Birkerts , Changing the Subject: Essays on the Mediated Self