noteworthy wrote:
Mark C. Taylor:

Graduate education is the Detroit of higher learning.

Martin Schwartz:

Science makes me feel stupid too. It's just that I've gotten used to it.

Louis Menand:

Getting a Ph.D. today means spending your 20’s in graduate school, plunging into debt, writing a dissertation no one will read – and becoming more narrow and more bitter each step of the way.

Nanochick:

Defending my thesis ... on May day! W00t!

Marge:

Bart, don't make fun of grad students! They just made a terrible life choice.

Chris Anderson:

When I was at The Economist, there was a policy to rotate everyone every three years. The idea was that fresh eyes were more important than experience. "Foreign everywhere" was the mantra.

Jonah Lehrer:

The baby brain is abuzz with activity, capable of learning astonishing amounts of information in a relatively short time. Unlike the adult mind, which restricts itself to a narrow slice of reality, babies can take in a much wider spectrum of sensation -- they are, in an important sense, more aware of the world than we are.

Often they would feed morsels of brain to young children and elderly relatives.

Richard Sennett:

It takes 10,000 hours of practice to become a skilled carpenter or musician -- but what makes a true master?

Malcolm Gladwell:

Anyone can become an expert in anything by practicing for 10,000 hours.

Full of good points and even better ideas.