Wim 🅾 @wim_v12e@octodon.social

@Eidon Beautiful flowers! I love the hydrangea. The last one is St-John's Wort, isn't it? What is the orange one?

This flower has the delightfully Tolkienian name of "asphodel".
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This is the view inside the actual pass. "Lairig" means "pass" in Gaelic. The "Ghru" part is apparently derived from the name of the burn in the picture, the Druie.
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This is the approach to the Lairig Ghru, probably the best known hill-pass in Scotland. What I like in particular is that it is 10 km from the nearest road.
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@Eidon @cafou I was afraid that on subsequent visits the novelty would have faded and it would be just another place.
But fortunately that has not been the case.

(3/3)
And some of them objected strongly to his giving everyone the same mark. How could the diligent students be distinguished from the dull ones? What was the good in working hard? If no competitive distinctions were to be made, one might as well do nothing.

“Well, of course,” Shevek said, troubled. “If you do not want to do the work, you should not do it.”

(2/3)
He asked his students to write a paper on any problem in physics that interested them, and told them that he would give them all the highest mark, so that the bureaucrats would have something to write on their forms and lists.

To his surprise a good many students came to him to complain. They wanted him to set the problems, to ask the right questions; they did not want to think about questions, but to write down the answers they had learned.

This is a great observation on education and assessment from Urusula Le Guin in "The Dispossessed" (1/3)

"He was appalled by the examination system, when it was explained to him; he could not imagine a greater deterrent to the natural wish to learn than this pattern of cramming in information and disgorging it at demand.
At first he refused to give any tests or grades, but this upset the University administrators so badly that, not wishing to be discouneous to his hosts, he gave in."

@Technowix Right, thanks for the suggestion. I see the context now. And I agree, FWIW :)

@Eidon @cafou I think I know the feeling. I had always wanted to go to Japan but it's wasn't until 2012 that I managed to go. And then I wanted to go back ^_^

@Technowix Sorry, I don't understand. I guess I can't see some of the replies because the ones I can see don't say anything like that.
Nevermind, it's not important.

@Technowix I had a similar feeling a while ago. In your case I think it is probably because niu is such a success, there are so many active users you can never be close to all of them.

@Technowix Someone said that? I'm interested about the context of your remark. As you prob know, I like Pleroma, but I've never heard anyone say that it solves any problems -- except low memory ^_^