Sviatoslav Richter toca Fryderyk Chopin

Étude Op. 25, N.º 11 ('Winter Wind')

Citações sobre Educação

"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education." Mark Twain

"A educação visa melhorar a natureza do homem, o que nem sempre é aceite pelo interessado." Carlos Drummond de Andrade

"Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one." Malcolm Forbes

"College isn't the place to go for ideas." Helen Keller

"A morte do homem começa no instante em que ele desiste de aprender." Albino Teixeira

"Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater." Gail Godwin

"Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten." B. F. Skinner

"The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving." Russell Green

"Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence." Robert Frost

"To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains." Mary Pettibone Poole

"A educação tem raízes amargas, mas os seus frutos são doces." Aristóteles

"Eduque-o como quiser; de qualquer maneira há-de educá-lo mal." Sigmund Freud

Sobre poder e responsabilidade estudantil

Acho que se pode aprender com isto. Bem falta faz aos estudantes e aos professores portugueses! O texto não está assinado, mas penso que é do editor do THES, Gerard Kelly.

The Times Higher Education Supplement
Leader: Student power has to go with commitment
Published: 07 December 2007

A few years ago, we reported on the case of the student who was awarded £200 by his university because he got stuck in a lift and missed a lecture. It wasn't an isolated incident - another student at another university was refunded £62.50 in course fees because of dissatisfaction "with the timing and quality of feedback". And yet another had her bus fare refunded after a lecture was cancelled without notice. Now it seems even coffee stains on essays invite censure. Students pay and students expect. Last year the number of complaints handled by the Office of the Independent Adjudicator rose by 44 per cent.
Nothing highlights the emergence of student power and the ambivalence surrounding it more than one particular Oxbridge nugget in our own poll on student experience. Cambridge and Oxford are second and fourth respectively. But they score poorly on the issue of providing a fair workload - students give both universities the lowest mark in that category. One might charitably conclude that students are revolting against an overtaxing workload that allows them little time for such essentials as part-time paid employment. Conversely, one might suppose that asking students to always approve of a regime that is demanding, rigorous and at some level pushes them to their intellectual limits is a little naive. It goes to the nub of the dilemma facing universities - it is not always possible to both maintain academic standards and please the student customer.
On the other hand, it is a foolish university that neglects its appeal to a student audience. In the US, mighty Harvard has had to take steps to restore its tarnished record on undergraduate teaching. In the UK, the London School of Economics feels it has to act after student complaints about the quality of teaching. Last week, the 1994 Group announced that the student voice would be central to teaching and learning.
Few would claim that students base their choice of university solely on the quality of its teaching and learning, which is why The Times Higher commissioned Opinionpanel Research to test a broad measure of the university experience. Prospective students want well-stocked libraries, up-to-date internet and sporting facilities, plentiful and good accommodation, an opportunity to work, relevant links with industry, helpful staff, a sense of community and a decent social life, as well as a good and creditable course.
This constant and insistent holding to account is, naturally, irksome to those who a decade or more ago did not have to bother with undergraduates demanding value for money. But in many respects - though not all - it is to be welcomed. It is easy to groan at pampered teenagers clamouring for en-suite rooms replete with wi-fi wonders. But if those same students insist that work submitted has relevant and detailed feedback, that marking procedures are robust, that the library stays open for longer and that they have at least some contact hours with the well-known experts who feature so prominently in the prospectus, surely an institution ultimately benefits.
The problem remains that treating students as a market would treat any other customer is bound to contaminate a crucial element of the educational encounter. Students do not buy a guaranteed outcome and wait passively for academics to deliver it. Baroness Deech's analogy with gym membership is a good one - the flabby won't get fit just by joining, they have to exercise. Students have a responsibility to subject their brain to a workout. Academics have a duty to interrogate, challenge, critique and, if warranted, fail the work of their pupils. If students are customers they are customers who enter into a compact - one that can be broken by them as well as by their university.

1640 Restauração da Independência de Portugal

Universitary Colleges at Oxford and at Cambridge

I got this information from Wikipedia and only rearranged it at my will.

COLLEGES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD (1167):
1225 St Edmund Hall
1249 University College
1263 Balliol College
1264 Merton College
1282 Hertford College
1314 Exeter College
1324 Oriel College
1341 The Queen's College
1379 New College
1427 Lincoln College
1438 All Souls College
1448 Magdalen College
1509 Brasenose College
1517 Corpus Christi College
1524 Christ Church
1555 St John's College
1555 Trinity College
1571 Jesus College
1610 Wadham College
1624 Pembroke College
1714 Worcester College
1786 Harris Manchester College
1870 Keble College
1878 Kellogg College
1878 Lady Margaret Hall
1879 Somerville College
1879 St Anne's College
1886 St Hugh's College
1886 Mansfield College
1893 St Hilda's College
1937 Nuffield College
1950 St Antony's College
1961 St Peter's College
1962 Linacre College
1963 St Catherine's College
1965 Templeton College
1965 St Cross College
1966 Wolfson College
1979 Green College

TOTAL 39


COLLEGES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE (1209):
1284 Peterhouse
1326 Clare College
1347 Pembroke College
1348 Gonville and Caius College
1350 Trinity Hall
1352 Corpus Christi College
1428 Magdalene College
1441 King's College
1448 Queen's College
1473 St Catharine's College
1496 Jesus College
1505 Christ's College
1511 St John's College
1546 Trinity College
1584 Emmanuel College
1596 Sidney Sussex College
1800 Downing College
1869 Girton College
1871 Newnham College
1882 Selwyn College
1885 Hughes College
1896 St Edmund's
1954 New Hall
1960 Churchill College
1964 Darwin College
1965 Wolfson College
1965 Clare Hall
1965 Lucy Cavendish College
1966 Fitzwilliam College
1976 Homerton College
1977 Robinson College

TOTAL 31

Evgeny Kissin toca Aleksandr Scriabin

Étude Op. 8, N.º 12

Mais Frases de Groucho Marx

"Go, and never darken my towels again."

"I could dance with you until the cows come home. On second thought I'd rather dance with the cows until you come home."

"It isn't necessary to have relatives in Kansas City in order to be unhappy."

"Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy."

"My mother loved children - she would have given anything if I had been one."

"Women should be obscene and not heard."

"No one is completely unhappy at the failure of his best friend."

"In America you can go on the air and kid the politicians, and the politicians can go on the air and kid the people."

"I'd horsewhip you if I had a horse."

"She's afraid that if she leaves, she'll become the live of the party."

"There is no sweeter sound than the crumbling of one's fellow man."

"The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open."

"You'd better beat it. You can leave in a taxi. If you can't get a taxi, you can leave in a huff. If that's too soon, you can leave in a minute and a huff."

"Love goes out the door when money comes innuendo."

"I have nothing but confidence in you. And very little of that."

"Why should I do anything for posterity? What has posterity ever done for me?"

"I like my cigar, but I take it out of my mouth once in a while."

"I aughta join a club and beat you over the head with it."

"If i cannot smoke in heaven, then i shall not go."

"Well, art is art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water! And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now, uh... Now you tell me what you know."

"You'll be hearing from my lawyer as soon as he graduates from law school!"

"As soon as I get through with you, you'll have a clear case for divorce and so will my wife."