I love the scope of these! They're thought-provoking and relevant to the kinds of things students question.  I think the danger of using very literary quotations about writing in particular is that the kind of writing they tend to focus on is so far removed from what many students do and care about that they are the opposite of inspiring - imagine an engineering student with a report to write who's faced with something flowery and shakespearian about the joys of literature or literary reading - it's possibly going to be more alienating than inspiring and maybe make them think that these learning or writing developers are on some other ethereal plane with more idealistic concerns than relate to the student's mundane situation. I love that the ones on this list are literary but also practical, grounded and validating the kind of dark thoughts that many students - and staff - have about writing, and show that they're not alone!

as another medievalist, I'm going to offer Nicholas of Cusa: “For even he who is most greedy for knowledge can achieve no greater perfection than to be thoroughly aware of his own ignorance in his particular field. The more be known, the more aware he will be of his ignorance.”

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Dear Michelle,


I would be interested in a collated list from the group!  I have added one - text from internet.

I like:


 

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  1. Your library is your paradise.
    -
    Desiderius Erasmus
  2. Education is the best provision for old age.
    -
    Aristotle
  3. Words are never 'only words'; they matter because they define the contours of what we can do.
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     Slavoj Žižek
  4. To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
    -
    Edmund Burke



On 2 August 2018 at 14:02, David Mathew <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Dear Michelle,

 

I love these two quotes – they are epigraphs at the start of the book that I am (panicking because I am not) writing, due for submission at the end of the year.

 

In one sense this is a simple question, and like all simple questions it becomes impossible to answer.

W.R. Bion[i]

 

…this sigh leads to a more difficult question: is living something that can be learned? or taught? Can one learn, through discipline or apprenticeship, through experience or experimentation, to accept or better, to affirm life? This concern for legacy and death resonates throughout the entire book.

Jacques Derrida[ii]

Best wishes

 

David

 

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From: learning development in higher education network [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Michelle Reid
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Subject: Literary quotes for learning development walls

 

Hi All,

 

I've been asked to find some literary quotes to go on the external wall of our offices for the newly refurbished Library here at Reading. 

 

The broad themes they have suggested are learning, development, education, support...

 

And the deadline they have sprung is today, so I am seeking some help from our community of creative and well-read Learning Developers. 

 

Hopefully it might provide an interesting displacement activity for a Friday afternoon. What literary quotes would you like to represent you and your service?

 

Many thanks,

Michelle

 

Dr Michelle Reid, Study Adviser, University Teaching Fellow, SFHEA

Study Advice and Maths Support  

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