Learning How to Think

"Learning how to think really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think. It means being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning from experience."

- David Foster Wallace
(from his 2005 commencement speech)

"If the young are not initiated..."

"If the young are not initiated into the village, they will burn it down just to feel its warmth."

- AFRICAN PROVERB