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posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 05:26am on 2007-09-23

From the Quotation of the day mailing list, 2005-06-15:

"To demand that others should provide you with textbook answers is like asking a strange woman to give birth to your baby. There are insights that can be born only of your own pain, and they are the most precious." -- Janusz Korczak
(submitted to the mailing list by Jeannette Cezanne)

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Womb for Rent

posted by [identity profile] louiseroho.livejournal.com at 02:19pm on 2007-09-23
Some people do ask a strange woman to give birth to their baby. They will pay about $10,000 to $50,000 to the strange woman for her efforts.
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posted by [identity profile] realinterrobang.livejournal.com at 06:41pm on 2007-09-23
Snark about the lousy metaphor aside, there are some kinds of problems that, for some people, are a lot easier to deconstruct with the answers already present. The current pedagogical models seem to like to ignore the presence of people who like to reverse-engineer problem-solving, but the same kind of conventional wisdom also says all kinds of other weird things, like that suspense is fun and Christmas presents should be surprises, so...
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