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Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right or better.

Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right or better.

John Updike
Motivational, Inspiring, Education
John Updike (2013). “Picked-Up Pieces: Essays”, p.22, Random House

It's not up to us what we learn, but merely whether we learn through joy or through pain.

John Updike
Education, Pain, Learning

School is where you go between when your parents can't take you and industry can't take you.

John Updike
Funny, Education, Witty
1963 The Centaur, ch.4.

The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education.

John Updike
Education, Children, Father
John Updike (1963). “The Centaur”, Ballantine Books

I imagine most of that stuff on the information highway is roadkill anyway.

John Updike
Education, Learning, Knowledge

Four years was enough of Harvard. I still had a lot to learn, but had been given the liberating notion that now I could teach myself.

John Updike
Education, Learning, Years
John Updike (2012). “Odd Jobs: Essays and Criticism”, p.923, Random House

You cannot but learn more of the world's heft, as you take it now into your hands.

John Updike
Education, Hands, Inspire
John Updike (2011). “Higher Gossip: Essays and Criticism”, p.479, Random House

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