Saturday, September 1, 2018

QotD: “If passions are things found fully formed, and your job is to look around the world for your passion—it’s a crazy thought."


“If passions are things found fully formed, and your job is to look around the world for your passion—it’s a crazy thought,” says Greg Walton of Stanford University. “It doesn’t reflect the way I or my students experience school, where you go to a class and have a lecture or a conversation, and you think, That’s interesting. It’s through a process of investment and development that you develop an abiding passion in a field.”
~ from Olga Khazan's article 'Find Your Passion’ Is Awful Advice'
[Hat tip Maria Montessori Education Foundation]

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